mekeor··on The guide to software development with GuixYou may use direnv which supports many IDEs, e.g. VSCode and Emacs. Here's a tutorial for Emacs: https://rednosehacker.com/combo-guix-shell-emacs-envrc-el
mekeor··on The guide to software development with GuixI very much prefer the Guix community because based on my personal experience, it is more friendly and helpful than the Nix community. The main help ressources are the help-guix mailing-list and the IRC channel.
mekeor··on The guide to software development with GuixActually Guix System also runs on GNU Hurd. Also one might try porting it on kFreeBSD as well.
mekeor··on A decade of dotfilesthere's a lispy alternative to nix, called gnu guix, which uses guile/scheme instead of nix-lang.