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Re:Kagi Search Stats on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @10:22AM (#37322582)
Considering search engines are on the way out, it's hardly surprising.
Re:NixOS for the Impatient on Saturday June 10, 2023 @02:42PM (#36273547)
This is keeping me from immediately jumping on Nix.

I'd rather use guix and scheme, but it's behind. If I learn nix, and then guix some day catches up, I'll already know nix and won't want to make the change anymore. Can't say I like the outlook for guix.

I don't get how people find nix useful. Setting up a python environment, for example, is a total nightmare. Nix lang itself seems completely unnecessary. Guix is using scheme, which I assume people would be more incentivized to learn just because it's a general programming language. So why is nix winning?