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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).