Flox
Podman
devenv
DevBox
Daytona
IBM Bluemix Container Service
SmallDevTools
Crane
NixOS
GNU Guix
Homebrew
asdf-vm
Flatpak
Chocolatey
pacman (package manager)
Ansible
Based on our record, NixOS seems to be a lot more popular than Flox. While we know about 269 links to NixOS, we've tracked only 8 mentions of Flox. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Is the objective to get inside a container to do dev stuff? Reminds me of https://www.jetify.com/devbox and https://flox.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
I think it's a bad addition since it pushes people towards a worse solution to a common problem. Using "go tool" forces you to have a bunch of dependencies in your go.mod that can conflict with your software's real dependency requirements, when there's zero reason those matter. You shouldn't have to care if one of your developer tools depends on a different version of a library than you. It makes it so the tools... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
I think that's a bit reductive, but I get the intent. A lot of people see systemic problems in their development and turn to tools to reduce the cognitive load, busywork, or just otherwise automate a solution. For example "we always argue over formatting" -> use an automated formatter. That makes total sense as long as managing/interacting with the tool is less work, not just different work. With Nix I still think... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Try flox [0]. It's an imperative frontend for Nix that I've been using. I don't know how to use nix-shell/flakes or whatever it is they do now, but flox makes it easy to just install stuff. [0]: https://flox.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
If you like NixOs and virtual development environments, perhaps try https://www.jetify.com/devbox or https://flox.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
Also for systems administration and DevOps, I first used Ansible to streamline the management of our servers. Writing playbooks is OK, but going beyond that to convert them to roles is a good practice from collaboration perspective. This SDK approach worked quite well for me and my team. Now, I am developing NixOS modules for various services we deploy. In both cases, the goal is to compose well-defined and... - Source: dev.to / about 14 hours ago
I bumped into an annoying issue today while upgrading my Python dependencies in a codebase. And I thought it would be a good idea to share the solution with you. Thanks to Nix for making this kind of fix so straightforward. - Source: dev.to / 8 days ago
I am actively using Nix from my workstation setup to development environments, from Docker image builds to CI/CD pipelines, and even on production servers. One of the themes that comes up often is provisioning a codebase, a development environment and packaging configuration for a new project. - Source: dev.to / 10 days ago
I'd love to create some Nix (https://nixos.org/) content. - Source: Hacker News / 23 days ago
NixOS may end up being "the last OS I ever use" (especially now that gaming is viable on it): https://nixos.org/ Check it out. The whitepaper's a fairly digestible read, too, and may get you excited about the whole concept (which is VERY different from how things are normally done, but ends up giving you guarantees). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
Podman - Simple debugging tool for pods and images
GNU Guix - Like Nix but GNU.
devenv - Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable dev envs
Homebrew - The missing package manager for macOS
DevBox - Everyday utilities for the everyday developer
asdf-vm - An extendable version manager
