Actually I hadn't heard about nix develop
, I came across Devbox pretty randomly
::: spoiler useless backstory
I remembered that I once saw a website Zero to Nix (on which I made a silly joke in the past on Reddit, but for the life of me can't seem to find so it's probably deleted) that said it would help learn the concepts of Nix, so I opened it just in case, then i saw that there was this FlakeHub banner on top that piqued my curiosity, I was like, is this a nod to Flathub:
Then I saw this Fleek thing that sounded like Home Manager but more user friendly (?)
Then I saw that it was deprecated so I was back to Home Manager(which in the end was easy enough anyway), but first I checked out their website that mentioned this Devbox thing
Between that and the rest, for the whole journey (that took surprisingly little time) I constantly jumped around from one website to another to piece together information and verify that it was accurate and up to date, to avoid messing up at least this one thing 😵💫
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So, after I saw it, I went to look into it more and found that it's like a sort of nix shell for who is used to NPM and the like and I immediately wanted to try it out, because it just sounded like less mental burden then learning yet another thing, which was devenv as far as I got, which I found through these Reddit and Hacker News discussions.
So for now I feel right at ~ home with it.
In your experience, do you think using nix develop would slim things down without sacrificing too much comfort?