[EddySchauHai]

I have been avoiding nix for a while since I had a bad time with it several years ago, however recently used it for a small Haskell/Latex environment for literal programming and found it worked really well. I’m probably going to invest time into learning it now, as the online docs seem to have gotten better.

[x0rg]

I have been using nix myself quite a lot, but mostly in already isolated environments, both a vm and GitHub codespaces.

[pxc]

It sounds like the improved docs have made a difference already, and that's great to hear. Could you name anything else that you think made your more recent experience so much better than your prior one?

[EddySchauHai]

External blog posts have helped, it’s easier to Google ‘nix-shell for <foo>’ and copy working code into your local environment. Honestly I couldn’t write hello world in Nix, but I can scrap together bits that work now and hopefully (according to the Nix ethos) will always work.