[LeBit]

I tried devbox and some other tool in that field.

I then tried dev containers.

Dev containers won. Hands down.

[jljljl]

You don't need to choose :). You can use Devcontainers with most of the Nix tools, including Devbox. See https://containers.dev/supporting

[LeBit]

I just gave that link to someone else who commented here. :)

You are right, but at the end of the day, I prefer to write my own installation scripts or "features" than dealing with Nix.

Maybe some day I'll go back to a nix tool to help writing a complex devcontainer.json with everything I need.

[physPop]

They're nice, but they lock you into vscode

[LeBit]

There are more and more tools making use of the dev containers spec: https://devcontainers.github.io/supporting.html