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    This is why I decided to learn Nix. I built dev environment flakes that provision the devshell for any language I intend to use. I actually won’t even bother unless I can get something working reliably with Nix. ;)

    For example, here’s a flake that I use for my Python dev environment to provide all needed wiring and setup for an interactive Python web scraper I built:

    
    {
      description = "Interactive Web Scraper";
    
      inputs = {
        nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs?ref=nixpkgs-unstable";
        utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
      };
    
      outputs = { self, nixpkgs, utils }: utils.lib.eachSystem ["x86_64-linux"] (system: let
        pkgs = import nixpkgs { system = system; };
      in rec {
        packages = {
          pyinputplus = pkgs.python3Packages.buildPythonPackage rec {
            pname = "pyinputplus";
            version = "0.2.12";
            src = pkgs.fetchPypi {
              inherit pname version;
              sha256 = "sha256-YOUR_SHA256_HASH_HERE";
            };
          };
    
          pythonEnv =
            pkgs.python3.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ webdriver-manager openpyxl pandas requests beautifulsoup4 websocket-client selenium packages.pyinputplus ]);
        };
    
        devShell = pkgs.mkShell {
          buildInputs = [
            pkgs.chromium
            pkgs.undetected-chromedriver
            packages.pythonEnv
          ];
    
          shellHook = ''
            export PATH=${pkgs.chromium}/bin:${pkgs.undetected-chromedriver}/bin:$PATH
          '';
        };
      });
    }
    
    
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        It feels like magic. I think of it as the glue that makes almost all of my software work together seamlessly. I can’t wait to use it for one-click deployments of my software on a server or high-availability cluster.