What computer/OS do you use for Erlang/BEAM dev?

Would love to hear more about your Nix setup, I’ve been meaning to try it out for months now.

Ah it’s nothing too complicated, I primarily do elixir stuff, and my
biggest project so far is my blog
(phoenix), and this fun little
visualization (not phoenix).

I rely on flakes to create development shells with direnv and the
nix-direnv extension to
load up the shell automatically.

Overall it’s pretty nice, there are some rough edges when trying to
build the project for deployment (also on NixOS), but those are pretty
much worked out.

Flakes are still technically experimental, but you can use the older
shell.nix, direnv, and niv to
accomplish the same thing.

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