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I tried devbox and some other tool in that field. I then tried dev containers. Dev containers won. Hands down.
by LeBit 3y ago
I tried devbox and some other tool in that field.
I then tried dev containers.
Dev containers won. Hands down.
- physPop 3y agoThey're nice, but they lock you into vscode
- LeBit 3y agoThere are more and more tools making use of the dev containers spec: https://devcontainers.github.io/supporting.html https://devcontainers.github.io/supporting.html
- jljljl 3y agoYou don't need to choose :). You can use Devcontainers with most of the Nix tools, including Devbox. See https://containers.dev/supporting https://containers.dev/supporting
- LeBit 3y agoI just gave that link to someone else who commented here. :) You are right, but at the end of the day, I prefer to write my own installation scripts or "features" than dealing with Nix. Maybe some day I'll go back to a nix tool to help writing a complex devcontainer.json with everything I need.
- lillecarl 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39697259 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39697259 "But there are hoards more that think you should just write hacky shell scripts and bugs don't really matter anyway."
- LeBit 3y agoThe link doesn't open on my side. Yeah, I am aware writing my own scripts isn't ideal, but this is the current state of affair. I could use mise to install most tools though. I would need to figure out what the overhead would be.
- LeBit 3y agoAh! I was able to open the link in a proper browser. I'm using HACK on iOS. Thanks for the condescending comment.