February 6, 2023
Do Repeat Yourself
Installing packages globally can lead to brittle development environments. Installing packages locally can be unwieldy. Jetpack’s Devbox combines the convenience of virtual environments with the UX of npm (and the immutability of Nix).
Popular package managers such as Homebrew and apt-get install packages globally. These packages are mutable and shared across all of your projects. Switching versions as you jump between projects is already painful, but these packages are mutable, meaning changes that happen in one place are unintentionally inherited by another.
On the other end of the spectrum, you have package managers such as NPM that install everything locally (e.g., in node_modules). Creating a new project means installing everything from scratch again.
Devbox installs packages globally in the immutable Nix store and creates a local virtual environment based on your project devbox.json config.
Do Repeat Yourself: Global Packages Considered Harmful, Jetpack.io
Funding
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Penpot, an open-source alternative to Figma designed to improve collaboration between developers and designers, raised $12m in Series A+ funding.
Jetpack.io, a startup building open-source tools for cloud development, raised $10m in Seed funding.
Gem Security, a platform for security operations teams built with cloud-native development in mind, raised $11m in funding.
Samooha, a cleanroom application deployed at the source of data for more secure collaboration, raised $12.5m in funding.
Method, a maker of APIs for debt repayment, balance transfers, and more, raised $16m in Series A funding.
Onehouse, provider of a cloud-native, fully managed lakehouse service built on Apache Hudi, raised $25m in Series A funding.
Moov, an all-in-one payments platform for developers building financial, raised $45m in Series B funding.
Q-CTRL, a quantum computing platform, raised $52m in Series B funding.