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    cachix/devenv

    Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments using Nix

    developer-tools
    devenv
    nix
    Rust
    Apache-2.0
    7.8K stars
    585 forks
    26 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 7, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 44 days ago, with 312 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #31 in the weekly ranking the week of Mar 8, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Creates fast, declarative, reproducible, and composable developer environments using Nix.
    • Ensures consistent and hermetic development setups that can be easily shared and versioned across teams.
    • Use for setting up isolated development environments with specific packages and services for individual projects.
    • Use for automating environment configuration and testing workflows with integrated shell commands and tests.
    • Use for managing multi-language development environments with support for scripts, git hooks, and background processes.

    Should you depend on it?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

    Community files

    • README: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    Running devenv init generates devenv.nix:

    And devenv shell activates the environment.

    Excerpt from the cachix/devenv README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 11: +19Aug 12: +13Aug 13: +10Aug 14: +7Aug 15: +5Aug 16: +12Aug 27: +31Aug 28: +8Sep 8: +18Sep 9: +25Sep 10: +8Sep 11: +5Sep 12: +1Sep 13: +2

    +568 stars over 90 days across 21 snapshot days; best day +31 on Aug 27.

    Forks

    585+51

    Open issues

    379+21

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