devenv
Fast, declarative developer environments with Nix
devenv is a tool for building fast, reproducible and composable developer environments declaratively using Nix. It is self-hosted on developer machines and CI to standardize tooling.
Key features
- Declarative dev environments
- Reproducible with Nix
- Built-in services
- CI integration
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- Mature project with 7.2k GitHub stars
- Written in Rust
- Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM
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