
Flox in your Jetbrains IDE
Stop leaving the IDE to manage your Flox environment
What it does
Flexible for Flox is an unofficial plugin that brings Flox to your IDE of choice. Flox offers reproducible, cross-platform dev environments and in the plugin you now can: manage packages visually, browse generations & roll back when something breaks, sync with FloxHub, edit your manifest with schema awareness, run services, and activate environments in the IDE terminal - one click. Cross-OS installer included: macOS, Linux, and WSL2 on Windows.
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- F1Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix2024 · github.com · ▲382
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…
- FLFactorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories2025 · jackhopkins.github.io · ▲749
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…



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