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Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments using Nix

13 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 1 story, 12 comments · first 2022-11-20 · latest 2026-08-09

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  1. …really excited when Farid showed me this! He has fixed the oldest and most upvoted issue on devenv: https://github.com/cachix/devenv/issues/16 Basic example in devenv: { multiverse, ... }: { packages = [ multiverse.cmake."3.16.5"…
    comment by domenkozar · 2026-08-09 · in Nixpkgs-multiverse: every version that ever existed
  2. We've removed telemetry a long time ago, see https://github.com/cachix/devenv/issues/1733
    comment by domenkozar · 2025-04-25 · in Devenv 1.6: Extensible Ad-Hoc Nix Environments
  3. …at least one approver. [1] https://devenv.sh/blog/2025/02/13/devenv-14-generating-nix-d... [2] https://github.com/cachix/devenv/blob/main/devenv/src/cli.rs...
    comment by turtleyacht · 2025-02-16 · in Devenv Telemetry Warning
  4. No even worse, it sends the actual file content to the server. Linked in the post: https://github.com/cachix/devenv/blob/6c987a8795eedea872afe4...
    comment by aftbit · 2025-02-15 · in Devenv Telemetry Warning
  5. …There seems to be no way to run `direnv` on an environment that's not the current working dir, see https://github.com/cachix/devenv/issues/67 . OTOH, `flox` was a bit harder to install in an existing nix setup and requires trusting their…
    comment by ilyagr · 2024-10-26 · in Flox, a better alternative to Dev Containers
  6. …in a per directory fashion, while allowing me to use the Linux distro of my choice. [1]: https://github.com/cachix/devenv
    comment by jasonriddle · 2024-07-25 · in Switching from Arch to NixOS
  7. …forced me to give up every time. Some of these 200+ issues are unsolved for a fairly long time. https://github.com/cachix/devenv/issues
    comment by yewenjie · 2024-04-12 · in Fast, Declarative, Reproduble and Composable Developer Environments Using Nix
  8. > but worried that the development is not moving forward There is an open v1.0 PR: https://github.com/cachix/devenv/pull/1005
    comment by mrd3v0 · 2024-03-13 · in Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
  9. …Until then, I'm using a devenv.sh Nix-based setup (without mDNS), with something like this: https://github.com/cachix/devenv/blob/main/examples/mkcert/d...
    comment by thenonameguy · 2023-08-01 · in Show HN: Local development with .local domains and HTTPS
  10. …dev python dependencies outside nix. For eg. if you were using devenv.sh, there is an example here: https://github.com/cachix/devenv/tree/main/examples/python-p...
    comment by amardeep · 2023-03-18 · in 20 years of Nix
  11. …`devenv ci` (which checks that the devenv file is good), then runs a 'script' in the devenv file... https://github.com/cachix/devenv/blob/8bea91cd1073b0d51cf96e... The 'script' in the devenv file: https://github.com/cachix/devenv/blob/8bea9…
    comment by rgoulter · 2022-11-20 · in Devenv.sh: Fast and reproducible developer environments using Nix
  12. I've been hacking on VSCode integration as of yesterday, follow https://github.com/cachix/devenv/issues/26 for updates :) This shouldn't be more than a day of work.
    comment by domenkozar · 2022-11-20 · in Devenv.sh: Fast and reproducible developer environments using Nix