Vscode-remote-release: Remote Development support for nix shell

[mschuwalow]

First of all the remote development feature is great!
I think it would be nice tough to integrate this with nix-shell or https://github.com/target/lorri for lightweight environments using the nix package manager. I think this has the potential to be even nicer than the docker environments as you don't have issues with owner permissions and don't have to volume mount configuration files.

[arrterian]

@mschuwalow Hi,
I released an experimental extension for working with nix environments in vs code.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=arrterian.nix-env-selector
You can set own shell.nix confix and all extensions the main process will get the env.
It can be a little buggy at the moment. But work still in progress

[mschuwalow]

@arrterian Very cool stuff! Thanks for pinging me.