[toyg]

> I've seen a few comments here about how Nix/NixOS fixes the whole python binary/library mess

Nix is a bit of a cult. Its theoretical aims are laudable, but in order to get there it forces you to do a lot of work and reason strictly in its own way. Whether all this work is worth the rewards, I think is open for debate.

[lvass]

Chemistry is a bit of a cult. Its theoretical aims are laudable, but in order to get there it forces you to do a lot of work and reason strictly in its own way. Whether all this work is worth the rewards, I think is open for debate.

[toyg]

Except there the laws of nature are either true or false, whereas the ways you can package software are... a bit more than two.