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Why not Flake?

Open guettli opened this issue 2 weeks ago • 1 comments

What problem are you trying to solve?

Can you please explain in the readme why this project is better than using Nix Flake?

What solution would you like?

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Alternatives you've considered

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guettli avatar Dec 16 '25 18:12 guettli

@guettli I believe the idea is that having using JSON (the devbox.json file) allows developers (and admins, ops, etc.) to avoid the learning curve of the Nix language. However, I agree that having that specified in the README.md file would be nice.

zbraiterman avatar Dec 17 '25 00:12 zbraiterman