All about development shells

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All about development shells #3

Closed infinisil closed 1 year ago

infinisil commented 2 years ago

How to use nix-shell? What is the shell.nix file? What is the new Flake way of doing this? What is mkShell and its arguments? What conventions exist around shell.nix files? Compatibility with Flake and traditional Nix shells? nix-shell in shebangs?

infinisil commented 1 year ago

We talked about this in the last Nix Hour #11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8DS6IqqrBA&list=PLyzwHTVJlRc8yjlx4VR4LU5A5O44og9in&index=11

If you have more questions about this let me know!