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Nix – A One Pager

GNU Guix NixOS devenv
  1. Like Nix but GNU.
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    • Open Source

    #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Developer Tools 90 social mentions

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    25 Jun 2014 . All software components in NixOS are installed using the Nix package manager. Packages in Nix are defined using the nix language to create nix expressions.
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    • Open Source
    Software developers often want to customize: 1. Their home environments: for packages (some reach for brew on MacOS) and configurations (dotfiles, and some reach for stow). 2. Their development shells: for build dependencies (compilers, SDKs, libraries), tools (LSP, linters, formatters, debuggers), and services (runtime, database). Some reach for devcontainers here. 3. Or even their operating systems: for development, for CI, for deployment, or for personal use. Nix provision all of the above in the same language, with Nixpkgs, NixOS, home-manager, and devShells such as https://devenv.sh/. What's more, Nix is (https://nixos.org/): - reproducible: what works on your dev machine also works in CI in prod, - declarative: you version control and review your configurations and infrastructure as code, at a reasonable level of abstraction, - reliable: all changes are atomic with easy roll back.

    #Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Linux Tools 246 social mentions

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    Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable dev envs
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    • Open Source
    Software developers often want to customize: 1. Their home environments: for packages (some reach for brew on MacOS) and configurations (dotfiles, and some reach for stow). 2. Their development shells: for build dependencies (compilers, SDKs, libraries), tools (LSP, linters, formatters, debuggers), and services (runtime, database). Some reach for devcontainers here. 3. Or even their operating systems: for development, for CI, for deployment, or for personal use. Nix provision all of the above in the same language, with Nixpkgs, NixOS, home-manager, and devShells such as https://devenv.sh/. What's more, Nix is (https://nixos.org/): - reproducible: what works on your dev machine also works in CI in prod, - declarative: you version control and review your configurations and infrastructure as code, at a reasonable level of abstraction, - reliable: all changes are atomic with easy roll back.

    #Password Management #Productivity #Password Managers 36 social mentions

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