Introducing 🌟flox 🌟, a next-generation environment manager built on Nix.
We think Nix is the right way to package, build, and share software moving forward, and we leveraged its superpowers to create flox.
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Flox
@floxdevelopment
Flox offers developers, platform engineers, and operators reproducible environments that span the enterprise SDLC.
Joined July 2021
- flox is thrilled to release the flox CLI beta to the public as an open-source project! We're also announcing we have secured a $16.6M in Series A funding led by NEA, among others!
- Flox is here 🎉 We’ve been working hard on research and development and making sure Flox is everything we want it to be. It is now generally available and you can use it to manage your dev environments the same way you manage your code.
- Using Nix allowed @fmzakari and the @googlecloud developers working on Looker to reduce onboarding time for new engineers significantly, even during a period of rapid expansion. Learn how they did it in this edition of #NixInTheWild. buff.ly/3P1tL33 #nixos #devops
- Homebrew fans! Check out this post on Homebrew vs flox and how they compare. We want to make it SO EASY to use Nix on Mac, and this is how. floxdev.com/blog/homebrew
- Nixpkgs is *the* big recipe book of open source, and it will help sustain the future of free and open source software due to its transparency, flexibility, and unique contributor model. Read up : floxdev.com/blog/nixpkgs #Nix #NixOS
- Yannik gave a talk at #FOSDEM introducing Runix, a Rust 🦀 interface to the Nix CLI, which we use at flox. github.com/flox/runix Check out the talk here: youtube.com/watch?v=2b2nc9…
- Hear why we built Flox from our head of product
- Wondering how to contribute to Nixpkgs? Here's a walk through
- quick post on TARs, NARs, and something Nix got right. floxdev.com/blog/hash-coll…
- Nixpkgs is a powerful asset for the maintenance and resilience of FOSS. Check out @urraca__'s article on
- Rust and Nix? Learn more in our latest post of how the two achieve similar goals in different realms!
