[viraptor]

I would suggest one more step of "oh, this is great": I don't think people need to care as much about finding the right version in the repo as they do. (Unless we're talking about something really significant like finding old MySQL 5.6) For smaller apps you can either override or copy the current nix file and update the version and hash - you get the version you want. It will use new version of the dependencies, but normally that's just fine.

I've got 3 packages which are pinned to a specific version that way in home-manager and I'm happy. It's not an approach for the first time user of course.

[jljljl]

I thought this too, but we got a lot of requests for better version search + pinning. Adding overrides and looking up the right commit hash is a pretty cumbersome for a first time user.

For new projects though, I agree that using `latest` is generally the way to go.