Nixpkgs - nix-shell basic usage

[@raghurammailbox]

The best onboarding materials for nix are these videos. Need a lot more of these, please.

[@BradleyADavis]

💯

[@xbz24]

thank you so much

[@drachehavoc]

ammm I ammm Hammm onn Mammm annn

[@xbz24]

I managed to compile my sfml and box2d project using shell.nix, then I extended it to use a cmakelists.txt, but I wonder on other machines how is this useful? aince if they dont have nix package manager how will they make use of the nix-shell?

[@felixlipski3956]

"independencies" hehe

[@jonringer117]

Yea, hard to talk and type :(. I wrote code, not prose :)

[@felixlipski3956]

@@jonringer117 but, you said it correctly - "... bring in dependencies", it's just that it sounded funny to me : p