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Repo or homepage link:
https://flox.dev/
https://github.com/flox/flox
Description:
Flox is a virtual environment and package manager all in one. With Flox you create environments that layer and replace dependencies just where it matters, making them portable across the full software lifecycle.
Why I think it's awesome:
I believe it's awesome, since it creates a whole new way of thinking about development environments, and package management. Instead of installing software globally somewhere on your system. It installs it in specific environments that can be activated and deactivated as you wish. Thus, only giving you the tools that you need at that time, and nothing else.
It's also cool that I can choose which version of packages I want, and what package groups I want to make sure are on a compatible version with each other.
There's also this whole environment sharing aspect with the
.floxdirectory in your git repo. This way, I can assure a team is on the same version of software, without having to ship my machine around. And since it's not as isolated as e.g. Docker, I can still use the shell that I'm used to, with the SSH config that I've built over the years.