[pmarreck]

I love the guarantees given by Nix (I'm an immutable/functional-lang dev, Elixir specifically, so I really do get that), and I get that introducing a certain amount of complexity is sort of unavoidable when going in this direction (similarly, functional languages have a learning curve), but Nix for some reason still isn't clicking for me- I don't know if its UI is just terrible, its learning curve too steep, or something... but it's the sort of thing you can't just dabble in, you have to commit 200% to... and I think that's asking a lot of people. To use the cost/benefit analogy of functional languages, it feels like Nix has a much steeper cost to get the (admittedly unique) benefit of a completely deterministic software stack.