If you are unfamiliar with Nix, just install with devbox. That said, you can also do `nix profile install` but then you kinda lose that nice declarative layer that devbox has. Now for some reason if you really want to do advanced customization of nodejs, then make a flake. Overkill for nodejs tho. Rust maybe.
Does anyone already rely on LLMs way too much? Yes, but nix is a lot more predictable than LLMs are.
It's not for everyone, but when you work with infrastructure and can guarantee that the software the developers build is the exact same version you're running for them it feels good to have that conversation out of the way already.
It looks like it could be interesting for projects at work, but it's hard to tell without more information around price, SLA and details about the service - for example in order to do an informed risk assessment.
Zero DevOps is crucial to Kubernetes adoption. We've seen so many companies choose to delay the adoption of Kubernetes and cloud development far into the future when migration costs are much higher. We hope that launchpad can lower this barrier of entry significantly.
