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Have you worked on a project where different Developers are developing with different tools or have different versions of packages installed?<\/p>\n\n

In a development team, you want all environments to be consistent - including every Developer's local environment.<\/p>\n\n

You want to have every environment to be as close as possible to each other or, ideally, identical.<\/p>\n\n

You want everyone to use the same PHP version, the same web and database servers and the same packages installed.<\/p>\n\n

Once things start to diverge, bugs can be introduced - such as writing code locally in a newer version of PHP than what's on production.<\/p>\n\n

Ideally, you also want everything to be reproducible with locked dependencies and generate the same outcome regardless of when the commands are run.<\/p>\n\n

This is one of the main reasons I've started to use Nix and devenv for projects<\/a> - because they create environments that are both consistent and reproducible, reducing the chances of dependency mismatches and bugs creeping into my code.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n

Have you worked on a project where different Developers are developing with different tools or have different versions of packages installed?<\/p>\n\n

In a development team, you want all environments to be consistent - including every Developer's local environment.<\/p>\n\n

You want to have every environment to be as close as possible to each other or, ideally, identical.<\/p>\n\n

You want everyone to use the same PHP version, the same web and database servers and the same packages installed.<\/p>\n\n

Once things start to diverge, bugs can be introduced - such as writing code locally in a newer version of PHP than what's on production.<\/p>\n\n

Ideally, you also want everything to be reproducible with locked dependencies and generate the same outcome regardless of when the commands are run.<\/p>\n\n

This is one of the main reasons I've started to use Nix and devenv for projects<\/a> - because they create environments that are both consistent and reproducible, reducing the chances of dependency mismatches and bugs creeping into my code.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ], "feeds_item": [ { "imported": "1970-01-01T00:33:45+00:00", "guid": null, "hash": "c2e765d3c10eb420e55c4f3c307a115f", "target_type": "feeds_feed", "target_uuid": "90c85284-7ca8-4074-9178-97ff8384fe76" } ] }