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Thanks for the awesome Nix installer and zero-to-nix! If you don't mind my asking: what are your thoughts on tools like Flox (floxdev) or Jetpack.io's Devbox? Do you feel like they are a good approach for sharing dev envs inside a company? And is DetSys working on something similar :^)?

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Thank you, you're welcome! I think those tools are interesting, but a crutch / tape over difficulties that Nix presents. I think that tools that try to hide a bad experience with another layer often presents more problems in surprising ways that sometimes leaves users with no option but to undo all their hard work and start over. We did a similar experiment last year with Riff, but haven't paid it much attention because of the layering problem. Our focus is making Nix and flakes themselves the best tool for the job.

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