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Re:Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of De... by toastal on Friday May 26, 2023 @02:07AM (#36080609)
That's a use case, but for from the best. Nix lets you create immutable, reproducible packages/OSs/deploys. Just bringing in tools to the developer environment means the distribution of its tools is immutable but everything you plan to do with it inside that environment is mututable. The forest is missed for the trees if folks think dev shells are the killer feature.
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Re:Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of De... by pxc on Friday May 26, 2023 @03:04PM (#36088315)
devShells are nice because they have a really low investment to benefit ratio. They're nice because they can often be a clear win for many teams even if they have little prior Nix experience.

But you're right! Deeper investment, starting with actually performing your builds with Nix, yields greater benefits, and teams that never take that next step miss out on that.

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Re:Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of De... by toastal on Saturday May 27, 2023 @05:14AM (#36093222)
I wouldn’t disagree, but it’s like stepping into the kiddy pool without bothering to learn to swim to unlock all the other opportunities to swim (and possibly save others too).
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