Nexenv – Dev Environment Manager

What it does

Developers waste hours fixing broken environments, version conflicts, and leaking variables. Nexenv creates isolated environments per project without containers or overhead. Open any project and it: – Detects and activates the correct runtime – Loads only that project's environment variables – Prevents conflicts between projects – Gets your workspace ready in seconds Define once in nexenv.yaml and your team works instantly. Stop configuring. Start building.

Open any project with the right runtime, env vars and tools. Auto-detection, isolation, health checks, templates and recipes. Desktop app, CLI included.

2 to 5 hours a week reconstructing environments: wrong runtime, mixed .env, forgotten services, outdated setup docs. Zero lines of product. You switch projects and your terminal keeps using the previous runtime. Everything looks fine until npm install, cargo build or the tests fail because of a version you weren't even touching. A variable from another project stays loaded in your session and the bug looks random. The problem started in the environment, but it blows up much later in tests, APIs or data. Joining a repo shouldn't be an archaeological dig through an old README, Slack messages and commands that "work for someone". When several projects share terminals, history, ports and recent…from delixon.dev

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