As a Mac-using Python shop, we had serious file-sync performance issues when mounting our codebase inside a container via docker-compose. Nix completely freed us from them and allowed us to develop with Python natively speedily and without all the serious faff & headaches that usually comes with getting reproducible builds on everyone machines.
If you'd like to know more, I spoke at DjangoCon Europe late last year [1] on our setup; it's still paying serious dividends for us!
If you'd like to know more, I spoke at DjangoCon Europe late last year [1] on our setup; it's still paying serious dividends for us!
Happy to answer more.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx3yiE_CJOY