The author shares their experience replacing Vagrant with devenv for their development environment. They encountered problems with Vagrant's shared folder and slow VM recreation. They considered containers but found them less ideal for development. They discovered devenv, a Nix-based alternative, and built a proof of concept. They faced challenges with integrating with PHPStorm and issues with WSL. Despite the challenges, the final setup improved speed and browser response times. They used home-manager for WSL configuration and aimed for a standardized development baseline. The author sees potential in the Nix ecosystem.
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What came before?Why switch?Why not containers?What about WSL?What else then?Building the proof of conceptProblems during the proof of conceptGoing forwardFinal thoughtsFootnotesSort: