Nix
Spicy — senior dev territoryGeneral Dev
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Nix makes your dev environment as reproducible as a Docker container, but without Docker. Write a flake.nix, run 'nix develop', and everyone on the team gets the exact same tools, same versions, instantly. The config is pure functional code, which is either elegant or infuriating.
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