I loved asdf but since moving to immutable fedora I've started loving distrobox more.
By giving each box it's own home folder vscode in each has only the extensions for that language. E.g I don't have any python extensions in my nodejs box.
Been working like this for a couple of weeks now and it's pretty good.
If I end up breaking a box I can simply delete it and start over.
Also moved to immutable Fedora, and had to move away from doing `pacman -S go python node` on the host for all my dev tools. Tried to keep doing that in a distrobox, but it kept breaking due to me not updating it. Then I started building my own toolbox container with all I need in it for local consumption from GHCR, and that works a bit better, but recreating it is still annoying. I ended up using Devbox as a Nix wrapper for many new projects, but those could all use asdf/mise too, and I might consider switching some over.
One project of mine, though, requires a shareable / pseudo-reproducible dev environment. Devbox didn't cut it, and mise especially couldn't have, since it requires some system deps. I went with a Nix Flake, which worked fine, but also started building a special distrobox image for the project, this time udimg Fedora as a base, as I perceived it as more stable. Using it too distrobox still had some issues, but I managed to make a shim/helper that runs `pnpm` from inside the container and that works pretty perfectly. Might be a bit worse on the performance side, though. We'll see.
By giving each box it's own home folder vscode in each has only the extensions for that language. E.g I don't have any python extensions in my nodejs box.
Been working like this for a couple of weeks now and it's pretty good.
If I end up breaking a box I can simply delete it and start over.