[jodoherty]

I think NixOS is what the future should be. Searching and resolving packages still seems slow, and things like flakes are still evolving to address rough edges, but having completely declarative definitions of the entire OS installation is amazing.

Spinning up native development environments as an extension of production environments is nice too.

I worry that tools like pyinfra and Ansible combined with Docker containers and traditional distributions might be good enough to prevent critical mass in terms of user adoption.

Even so, it’s worth daily driving for a while just to get a sense of what the world could be like. Kind of like Erlang OTP versus Kubernetes and containerized microservices.