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No, it uses native Nix directly on your machine - Linux, Mac, or Windows. Its integration with Docker is that it can _build_ Docker images from the Nix packages in your "devbox".



I'm assuming for windows it only works in WSL2? cause last time I checked nix wasn't compatible with native windows development, sadly


Native windows support is or at least was being worked on.

Wsl/nix should work.


Yeah I assume so too, but I'm not sure.


It's the same abstraction layer though. The implementation for all three is bound to be different.




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