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       Devenv: Compose a Developer Environment Easily for PHP with Nix
        
       Author : domenkozar
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2022-12-25 19:53 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | wackget wrote:
       | Honestly I've yet to be convinced of the value of having to learn
       | to use all these extra tools which supposedly make devops
       | "easier".
       | 
       | If I want a PHP environment I'd launch a VPS or virtual machine
       | and set one up manually with a few standard shell commands. That
       | way I'm working with the actual technologies themselves and am
       | learning how they work directly instead of forcing myself to
       | learn the syntax and commands of several unrelated technologies
       | (yarn, docker, nix, etc.) which are just wrappers for the "real"
       | setup.
       | 
       | These abstractions are usually far less flexible and more
       | restrictive than just setting up the services yourself, anyway.
       | 
       | How is going through all of that worth the considerable extra
       | time, effort, and mental energy than just - you know - setting up
       | the services themselves?
       | 
       | A single command `yum install httpd php8 mariadb` will get you a
       | working local server stack with very little extra configuration.
        
         | XzAeRosho wrote:
         | When you work in multiple projects with different requirements
         | this kind of tools are a godsend.
        
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