[rektide]

I disagree with the premise. I havent seem much net change in popularity. It's still widely lambasted even by it's adherents as deeply woefully lacking in middle-ground documentation especially- there's docs for absolute newbies, there's og posts discussing super advanced juju, but hardly anything inbetween. There's few guides helping explaim the wild nixscripts one come to face.

[iswkq]

> we are starting to trend on newcomers! While the majority have used Nix or NixOS in the 1 to 3 year range (37%), 30% of respondents have joined the Nix community in the last year. Our expectation is that as we continue to improve Nix and NixOS we should be seeing a positive trend that leans towards more Nix users <1 year.

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-nix-survey-results/18983

[brendanfalk]

This Google Trend graph shows an increase popularity. The increase has been fairly linear since 2014 but there were notable spikes in late 2021 and early 2022

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

[pcthrowaway]

I assumed this discussion was about the package manager and not the OS

[JamesSwift]

Agreed. Nix always means Nix Package Manager unless NixOS is specified. Its hard to distinguish `Nix` from `Nix package manager` in google trends though, so the "NixOS" trendline might be the best proxy for popularity of the entire ecosystem.