Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Flox in your Jetbrains IDE
Stop leaving the IDE to manage your Flox environment
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hey HN, I'm Ron Efroni, CEO at Flox, and today we are releasing version 1.0 of our open source CLI, helping folks manage development environments everywhere.My own experience with development environments began with air-gapped systems, having to actually burn software to a CD to iterate over a very slow and expensive development cycle, sometimes reaching the server rack and realizing I have the wrong disk.... Fast forward to today and there are countless alternatives available backed by incredible compute resources, yet we somehow still find ourselves paying the price of long development…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Flox▲375Hey Everyone! Ron here, part of the NixOS Foundation and building Flox. Just coming out of this years NixCon and pretty excited to show hn below :) As of today, NVIDIA officially recognizes Canonical, SUSE, CIQ, and Nix—via Flox—as supported distributors for CUDA. Full blog - https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/developers-can-now-get-cud... This is a huge win for the Nix community. For years, CUDA on Nix was possible but painful—builds could take hours, and redistributing prebuilt binaries was blocked by NVIDIA's licensing requirements. NVIDIA's growing engagement with key…
2024 · flox.dev · its alternatives →
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I'm Jack, and I'm excited to share a project that has channeled my Factorio addiction recently: the Factorio Learning Environment (FLE). FLE is an open-source framework for developing and evaluating LLM agents in Factorio. It provides a controlled environment where AI models can attempt complex automation, resource management, and optimisation tasks in a grounded world with meaningful constraints. A critical advantage of Factorio as a benchmark is its unbounded nature. Unlike many evals that are quickly saturated by newer models, Factorio's geometric complexity scaling means it won't be…
2025 · jackhopkins.github.io · its alternatives →
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JetBrains Air▲252Run Codex, Claude Agents, Gemini CLI, and Junie side by side
Mar 2026 · air.dev · its alternatives →
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deco.cx 2.0▲1,078Build web apps 10x faster with Deno, JSX, TS & Tailwind
2024 · decocms.com · its alternatives →
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Flotato▲457Instantly create native, light Mac apps for any web app
2019 · flotato.com · its alternatives →
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Daytona▲522Dev environment manager that makes you 2x more productive
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Remote Development with JetBrains and Gitpod
2022 · ona.com · its alternatives →
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2023 · flakehub.com · its alternatives →
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Finished my trading infrastructure project over the weekend - it’s called FLOX. Built in pure C++ (uses C++20 features), it’s a modular framework for building HFT systems, trading infra, market data feeds, or even something like a TradingView clone. Everything is open source: https://github.com/eeiaao/flox Docs: https://eeiaao.github.io/flox/ There are tests and benchmarks to keep it stable. Might add JS engine support later for scripting strategies. Open to feedback and contributions.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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1DevTool▲94Multi-project IDE with persistent terminals and 9 dev tools
Mar 2026 · 1devtool.com · its alternatives →
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I've been frustrated with dependency hell and clutter on my VPS from dev, so I built Devbox: a lightweight, open-source CLI tool that spins up isolated development environments using Docker. Each project runs in its own container, but your code stays in simple flat folders on the host machine—no messing with volumes or sync issues. Environments are disposable, so you can nuke and recreate them without losing your work. Key features: - Instant setup: `devbox init my-project` and you're in a fresh env with `devbox shell`. - Configurable via JSON: Define packages, services, and more in a…
2025 · devbox.ar0.eu · its alternatives →
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Devex▲105Your own open-source, containerized and shareable cloud IDE.
2025 · devx.parthkapoor.me · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I've built this cli tool to manage env variables of a project, but mostly for fun and to try out Rust and the clap crate. I had this idea when I made a big mistake and broke some production stuff because I had a very messy .env file laying around in my project. I was implementing new features for one of my projects and in my .env file I had the test database url commented out and the production one was not. Long story short, I applied migrations to the production database instead of my local test one and broke a lot of production APIs :') I wanted a tool that could easily help me…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I’m excited to share Actionate, a passion project my team and I have been building to reimagine GitHub Actions within JetBrains IDEs. We’ve spent over a decade working in innovation labs at major tech companies, but our true passion lies in crafting tools that we genuinely want to use every day. With Actionate, we’re not just integrating CI/CD into JetBrains; we’re leveraging the powerful building blocks provided by JetBrains and GitHub Actions to create new, transformative functionality. Our MVP (Minimum Viable Product) focuses on the most essential features we find critical for a…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Jetmove - A script to enhance navigation and multiple carets in Jetbrains IDEs - README.md
2024 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →
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Small team down here in South New Zealand just launched CodeLink. In short its an IDE (VSCode/JetBrains) plugin that lets you share blocks of code that link directly to the code inside your IDE or repo. We use it all the time and think its pretty nifty tech that lets you understand someone’s code in context very quickly. we’re hoping to keep refining it to make it better and more useful.
2022 · codelink.dev · its alternatives →
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DevLensPro▲98AI-powered debugging for Claude Code. Point, click, fix
Jan 2026 · devlens.pro · its alternatives →
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