[earthling8118]

I don't think it's very valid to compare the two. It is a little bit just to compare the experiences using them bit they aren't meant to solve the same set of issues. In fact, they are better together in my experience. I use nix to manage my terraform configurations with a lot of success. It reduces my boilerplate and helps me build abstractions on top of HCL.

If you ever decide to take a stab at nix again, consider looking at https://github.com/ipetkov/crane and using flakes. I've got it down to the point that I can get a new rust project set up with nix in about 30 seconds with linting, package building, and test running all in the checks

[troutwine]

Crane is one of the libraries(?) I came across. Couldn’t get it to work on an existing multi-crate workspace project. The crane documentation as-is didn’t provide enough context to debug the errors I saw in the process of trying to muddle through. And then looking further afield ran into all the documentation, bootstrapping issues I alluded to above. Although I don’t doubt I could start a new project the point was to add new capability to existing work, for me.