Devbox
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ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Devbox is Nix for people who don't want to learn Nix. Run 'devbox add nodejs@20 postgresql' and devbox creates an isolated environment with exactly those tools. No system pollution, no version conflicts, and you didn't have to write a single functional expression.
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