[Wazzymandias]

Nothing should be labeled as the ultimate devops toolkit when its documentation is as atrocious as nix

People can commend it as much as they want, but the steep learning curve is largely self inflicted because of their resistance to writing clean, comprehensive, up to date docs

It has also led to the community being filled with a lot of arrogance and pretentiousness

I wouldn't run nix in production because of the lack of accessibility and toxic community. There are other ways to get reproducibility, etc without using an arcane and poorly documented toolkit

[hinkley]

> It has also led to the community being filled with a lot of arrogance and pretentiousness

I would conjecture that you have cause and effect reversed.

When people think they're doing you a favor, the ego protects itself from hearing how their help is not actually that helpful. See aid to Africa in the 80's and 90's for example.

[kaba0]

Any concrete reason you call such a niche, but large community toxic?

[Wazzymandias]

It's been mostly from personal experience, though I shouldn't generalize to the community as a whole.

Anecdotally my experience with nix community has been unpleasant. They're very resistant to suggestions and offer little in terms of guidance or documentation.