[amardeep]

> tomberek

1. Two independent use cases.

a) First was a personal use to carry my dotfiles/home config everywhere (office mac, home mac, virtual machines). Ended up configuring a flakes based home-manager setup.

b) Second is trying to get good devshell experience for the whole team. Especially in a monorepo setting with multiple languages and tools. Right now there is tons of setup required including installing right versions of java, python, nodejs, lots of instructions to get right python version, poetry install, setup aliases etc.

2. No, it is not. It didn't take much of research to conclude flakes are the way to go. Honestly, I am confused by so many responses about confusion between flakes and non-flakes as I don't think it take much effort to realize flakes are the way to go even if it is experimental.

Though, to be fair, it does hurt that two of the recommended resources - nix.dev and nix pills - do not cover flakes.

[tomberek]

1) what would you consider to be "wow" or magic that would go beyond a+b. What is steps c+d that would be incredible value?

2) We're working on stabilization... just asking for a bit of patience.