Is anybody using distrobox on NixOS to develop and run software? What are your thoughts on using it?
I feel like it’s a huge time saver and makes the use of NixOS easier for beginners. Instead of spending an afternoon or a few days trying to compile or run something using nix, you can spin up a box and seamlessly do your development there. This makes prototyping and testing things out way easier before investing a bunch of time trying to nixify it.
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It is. Even though I’ve been using NixOS for some time now, it comes in handy specifically with development tools that require a mutable file system. For example if you want to develop a VSCode extension or use NVM.