Comment by buu700

I don't know about jujutsu, but I've actually found that Nix removes a lot of complexity. It's essentially just npm for tooling.

Managing a flake.nix can be a bit more complex than a package.json in practice, due to the flexibility of the format and some quirks around Nix's default caching behavior, but working with it is a breath of fresh air compared relying on globally installed tools. Having said that, you might want to check out Devbox. I haven't used it myself, but found it recently and thought it looked like a nice abstraction over raw Nix.