Use mise for package installations

[iloveitaly]

Feature request

There's probably a lot of reasons why this is a bad idea, but I wanted to throw it out there to generate some discussion around it:

nixpkgs language runtime versions:

• Deterministic builds (however, with things like the node package mangement layer in place, builds are not completely deterministic)
• Do not support exact minor versions for runtime versions
• Require a new nixpacks build with a updated SHA when any new version of a language is released

in contract, mise:

• Does not have the same determinism guarantees as nix
• Supports exact minor versions of runtimes
• Supports additional versions without any build updates
• Supports a wider range of tools, without any incremental upfront or recurring maintenance work

Curious what folks think of the possibility of using mise! I've been using it across many projects (example) and been enjoying it.

Motivation

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[coffee-cup]

Hey @iloveitaly, very timely feature request. We are currently in the middle of our quarter planning at Railway and are also starting to this this is a great idea. More information to come soon.

[iloveitaly]

that's awesome to hear! Very curious to hear where this lands.