[chriswarbo]

> The very idea of "Hey let's build this whole new thing that does this specific old task a little bit better at the cost of learning many new concepts (and making many mistakes)" is not good at the core.

You don't seem to have a problem with Dockerfiles, yet Nix was around for a decade before Docker existed. If you don't want people to reinvent things that already work, then your complaint should be directed at Dockerfiles. In fact, you should go and complain at the following projects, which were (a) created after Nix, (b) try to solve some subset of things that Nix can already handle and (c) are strictly worse than Nix (e.g. less secure, not reproducible, not cross-platform, tied to one language, etc.):

- Docker

- NPM

- Puppet

- Ansible

- Salt

- Webpack

- Grunt

- Gulp

- Homebrew

- Pip

- Conda

- Poetry

- Gradle

- Vagrant

- etc.