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⚠️ DEPRECATED: DO NOT USE THIS APPROACH ANYMORE This blog post contains outdated information. Chainguard has significantly reduced its commitment to open source, and the wolfiphp approach described here is no longer recommended for production use. See the wolfiphp announcement for more details. Alternative: Use Debian’s official packages with apt-get install php8.4-cli and related packages. While images may be larger, Debian provides stable, openly maintained PHP packages without dependency on corporate-controlled initiatives. ...

I have been using Nix for almost four years and also maintaining some packages at nixpkgs (the primary Nix repository). The Nix learning curve is complicated, so I could not get my colleagues into it. But Devenv made it so easy to compose a developer environment, so I got their attraction, and some of them switched already, and we are looking to where we can use it too. What is Devenv? Devenv allows you to describe in the Nix language how your project setup has to look like for any Unix-based systems (WSL2, Mac, Linux) for amd64/arm64 architectures. As you may know, no project has the same dependencies: one needs NodeJS 16, and the other NodeJS 18 already. For those reasons, there are already solutions like NVM(node version manager) where you can pin the version using a .nvmrc file. This works, of course, only for Node, and there are similar tools for any language and devenv allows you here to pin any package and with services. ...