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0 pointsbomewish1y ago0 comments

Are you just describing something close to Nix?? In any case, Nix solves a lot of these problems.

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Kind of, but not really. Nix is extremely complicated. Programs / projects including their dependencies is exceedingly simple.

Also, Windows is my primary dev environment. Any solution must work cross-platform and cross-distro. Telling everyone to use a specific distro is not a solution.

bomewishOP1y ago

It is complicated... but honestly I have found claude 3.5 to just 'fix it'. So you hardly have to spend much time spelunking. You just give it all your dependencies and tell it what you want. It'll whip up a working flake in a few iterations. Kinda magic. So yeah when you can abstract out the complexity it moves the needle enough to make it worth it.

xyzsparetimexyz1y ago

Nix != NixOS. It runs on WSL: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL

forrestthewoods1y ago

Less than zero interest in WSL.

Nix fans are becoming as obnoxious as Rust fans. And I say that as an times annoying Rust fan.

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forrestthewoods1y ago

Kind of, but not really. Nix is extremely complicated. Programs / projects including their dependencies is exceedingly simple.

Also, Windows is my primary dev environment. Any solution must work cross-platform and cross-distro. Telling everyone to use a specific distro is not a solution.

bomewishOP1y ago

xyzsparetimexyz1y ago

Nix != NixOS. It runs on WSL: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL

forrestthewoods1y ago

Less than zero interest in WSL.

Nix fans are becoming as obnoxious as Rust fans. And I say that as an times annoying Rust fan.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse