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by otabdeveloper4 2055 days ago
> Nix is a nice research project

It's not. As far as I can tell, it's used heavily in some corporate environments once you're faced with solving the development environment dependency hell and you need something that actually solves your problem. (This is my story too.)

> ...and now I manage my personal machines with a simple Ansible playbook

Where Nix is used you typically don't have "personal machines". And having a separate guy just doing setups of developer environments is a huge overhead.