Nix: An idea whose time has come
<p><pre><code>  &gt; Nix often scares newcomers and experienced devs alike, because it proposes a fairly radical overhaul to how we think about package management and how we run software in general.
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I am not sure this is the main put-off of nix.<p>Ideologically, I love nix. The syntax&#x2F;language itself is a massive barrier IMO.<p>I use Nix for personal projects, but I prefer the experience of Devcontainers. They&#x27;re easier to understand and debug (for me).<p>I&#x27;m watching eagerly the work being done by the ostree&#x2F;rpm-ostree folks who are also trying to solve for a similar problem. Hoping to see something like &quot;Nix but with YAML&#x2F;JSON&quot; come out of that.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ostree.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;manual&#x2F;related-projects&#x2F;#nixos-nix" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ostree.readthedocs.io&#x2F;en&#x2F;stable&#x2F;manual&#x2F;related-proje...</a>