Comment by trws

I agree, but I’m happy to see that Nix, Guix, and the one I do the most work on Spack are starting to gain some traction since they all do basically this. Making it work is not always trivial though, and making it work efficiently is harder. Only in the last few years have I felt like we’re finally getting to the point where this is actually a maintainable model for the majority of software distribution. Here’s hoping it gets the rest of the way!