> The consequence is me, spending a few hours debugging my environment instead of writing code.
But then I also see this:
> I’ve spent a lot of time recently moving my entire workflow into a declarative system using nix.
I can see how this can be beneficial for someone who switches systems very often, reinstalls their OS from scratch very often, or just derives a lot of pleasure/peace of mind knowing that their dev env is immutable.
I change computers once every 6 years or so, maybe more. To me this looks like exchanging a couple (hypothetical) hours of debugging 6 years in the future by tens of (guaranteed) hours trying to climb up the nix learning cliff.
I am happy that it works for the author though, and knowing that it's possible is good in case my particular development circumstances change.
> The consequence is me, spending a few hours debugging my environment instead of writing code.
But then I also see this:
> I’ve spent a lot of time recently moving my entire workflow into a declarative system using nix.
I can see how this can be beneficial for someone who switches systems very often, reinstalls their OS from scratch very often, or just derives a lot of pleasure/peace of mind knowing that their dev env is immutable.
I change computers once every 6 years or so, maybe more. To me this looks like exchanging a couple (hypothetical) hours of debugging 6 years in the future by tens of (guaranteed) hours trying to climb up the nix learning cliff.
I am happy that it works for the author though, and knowing that it's possible is good in case my particular development circumstances change.