[lexlash]

Chiming in to say that direnv is one of the greatest projects I've ever come across and it gets damn near everything right out of the box - you can also use it without any Nix at all. (It makes a nice gateway to Nix, though; once you have your directory-based env vars, it's a shorter hop to directory-based package configuration...)

[lloeki]

Absolutely. I use it both with and without Nix.

By direnv's design, this vscode extension restores sanity in vscode env handling mess†: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mkhl.dir...

† Depending on how you (re)start vscode (terminal vs launchd) it's going to either have some project env vars or not. e.g do `code /some/path` in a terminal and it inherits env vars from the terminal, which is nonsense on macOS because then if you reopen the project the env vars are gone because it's been relaunched by launchd. Dunno if it has been fixed but it was even worse when a vscode process initially started via terminal would have env vars inherited for all subsequently opened projects, even different ones.

[pxc]

Nix and direnv is such an insanely good combo. I use them together, typically via devenv, the latter sometimes as a library on top of a plain flake.nix, other times with the full devenv CLI and experiene— I love both for different use cases. Really pleasant.