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Re:Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of De... by pxc on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:38PM (#36077313)
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Re:Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of De... by ghuntley on Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:33PM (#36077825)
> In the last few years, Nix has gone from a place where I was sometimes uncomfortable recommending it to people to one where I feel like it would be unstrategic not to use it.

Super agree. Been using nix now for six(?) years and always been advocating for it but hesentiant to recommend companies adopt it (unless you can use it to attract talent as walmart did with nodejs back in the day) however with https://devenv.sh and https://nix.dev in the existence the time to amaze is now measured in < 5 minutes. nixpkgs also partially solves sbom topics, enables monkey patching any linux application/kernel/ffi dependency, has the freshest collection of packages (it's more fresh than archlinux by a major factor) whilst all being under CI/CD (shamefully rare in linux land)