devenv vs devbox vs nix-shell?

From this thread I found out about https://devenv.sh and https://www.jetpack.io/devbox but I'm having trouble comparing them to nix-shell.

Are they wrappers around nix-shell? They seem to do the same thing with services, devcontainer generation, environment variables, etc.

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I haven't used either, but at a glance devenv claims to use Nix while devbox explicitly says it doesn't. I've been happily using flakes with nix-direnv myself and I have no complaints but options are always nice so I'll keep an eye on this!
- I think devbox doesn't make it necessary to write nix, but it uses nix in the background.
  
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