> Nix often scares newcomers and experienced devs alike, because it proposes a fairly radical overhaul to how we think about package management and how we run software in general.
I am not sure this is the main put-off of nix.
Ideologically, I love nix. The syntax/language itself is a massive barrier IMO.
I use Nix for personal projects, but I prefer the experience of Devcontainers. They're easier to understand and debug (for me).
I'm watching eagerly the work being done by the ostree/rpm-ostree folks who are also trying to solve for a similar problem. Hoping to see something like "Nix but with YAML/JSON" come out of that.
Ideologically, I love nix. The syntax/language itself is a massive barrier IMO.
I use Nix for personal projects, but I prefer the experience of Devcontainers. They're easier to understand and debug (for me).
I'm watching eagerly the work being done by the ostree/rpm-ostree folks who are also trying to solve for a similar problem. Hoping to see something like "Nix but with YAML/JSON" come out of that.
https://ostree.readthedocs.io/en/stable/manual/related-proje...