[MichaelGlass]

Yeah I wish you could just start with a `.tools-version` and nix would generate a development flake. Someday!

That being said, the task of debugging a deprecated tool version in asdf just one time makes the investment in the nix awkwardness worth it.

the pitch for nix isn't that it's a nicer tool than, e.g. `asdf`, but rather, that it will probably work in five years. frightful flashbacks of of trying to get nokogiri to build.

[Cloudef]

Some people are doing these kind of wrappers, for example: https://github.com/luispedro/nixml

Machine learning people usually use anaconda which is all sorts of mess... But honestly yeah, I think it's worthwhile to invest learning nix for simply guaranteeing your environment still works for years to come and isn't affected by side-effects (some thing outside of your environment description actually is causing the whole thing to work, or some thing outside the environment is making the thing not work).

[floxdev]

we're working on something like this :) Check out https://floxdev.com

[viraptor]

Slightly off topic, but that page lags like crazy on ff mobile. I was trying to read/scroll it and it wasn't a great experience.