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Re:Devenv.sh: Fast and reproducible developer environments u... by thejosh on Saturday November 19, 2022 @10:51PM (#33678047)
asdf was the closest to this, but the startup time is pretty bad (there is a 300ms+ delay) for apps. It is a giant hack but works well. But I hear about weird dependency issues all the time with Macs (both Intel and the newer Apple Silicon) with Erlang or Elixir.

I'm really excited for nix as true sandboxing would be great. Nix however I couldn't get working properly.. and I've been using Linux for almost 17 years.

Once the UX gets sorted, this is a game changer.

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Re:Devenv.sh: Fast and reproducible developer environments u... by cobby on Saturday November 19, 2022 @11:37PM (#33678299)
> but the startup time is pretty bad (there is a 300ms+ delay) for apps.

Someone has told me that this can be solved with asdf-direnv so I am wondering if this is true and I should actually consider using asdf.

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