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Hi all, I'm the author of https://devenv.sh, https://cachix.org and https://nix.dev.
I've been part of the Nix community for more than 10 years and in the last 4 years focused on making it documented, simple and accessible for any developer.
After building Cachix (where you can store any software binaries with a few steps) we realized that there needs to be an intuitive interface for crafting developer environments.
I'm really looking forward what you build on top of devenv. We're only beginning to explore the area of what's possible, so please give as much feedback as you have.
This is great! After spending some time with nix and writing https://mimoo.github.io/nixbyexample/ I figured it’s too consuming and hard to manage nix yourself. These usable user-facing tools are really what nix needs to go to the next level
There is also devshell[1] which allows you to configure specific commands for your `env` and sits inside your flake.
[1]: https://github.com/numtide/devshell
Adding to this, my understanding is that Nix does not guarantee any Nix derivation/package will seamlessly run on Linux, Mac, and Windows. So in this one aspect it is less capable than Docker, i.m.h.o.
i.e. if a Nix derivation depends on the systemd package https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=unstable&show=syst... , Nix will not automatically find a replacement. But it may be possible to manually work around this with https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin
More on building Docker images with Nix: https://nix.dev/tutorials/building-and-running-docker-images