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Re:Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix by jljljl on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @03:22PM (#39696159)
Devbox can also run services too. Both products use an awesome process runner called process-compose (https://github.com/f1bonacc1/process-compose/) which is worth checking out (it's even built with nix!)
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Re:Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix by tripdout on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @04:02PM (#39696676)
I think the ability to run services is really what separates Devbox from other related Nix-based dev-env solutions.

Essentially taking what you get from the NixOS-specific configuration.nix options (like for example `services.mediawiki.enable = true`) and letting that be per-project, per-directory, is super useful.

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Re:Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix by altano on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @09:28PM (#39699692)
I think Devbox's killer feature is trivially searching for and installing packages by version: https://www.jetpack.io/blog/how-nixhub-searches-nixpkgs/
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