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sundbry on Aug 11, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces

No. You can achieve the same benefits of local reproducibility with Nix/Guix. Guix is more composable IMO because you can program multi-service development environments entirely in scheme.

kook_throwaway on Aug 11, 2021 [–]

Nix seems to have that ability via Disnix[1], though I haven't used it. Looking through the manual[2] it still looks like its in nix.

[1] https://github.com/svanderburg/disnix

[2] http://hydra.nixos.org/job/disnix/disnix-trunk/tarball/lates...

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