[seabass-labrax]

This is a bit of a unnecessarily provocative title, since the question of whether or not to promote the 'experimental' flakes system and replace the channels mechanism is still an active and controversial one in the Nix community. There hasn't been any significant news on this front recently; this article simply explains why flakes were introduced as an experimental feature.

[pushtheenvelope]

Oh, it isn't intended to be provocative.

The title is simply literally the question that I was thinking about a few months ago when working on Devbox, and wrote a version of this post internally to answer the question for myself!

[seabass-labrax]

Ah, that's good to know :) It is just that I was expecting to read about some breaking news; that I missed that Nix deprecated channels or something! It is indeed a nice article explaining Flakes in general. Maybe "Why did Nix introduce Flakes?" might be a slightly better title for people coming with prior expectations like I did?

[pushtheenvelope]

s/adopt/introduce

done :)

[seabass-labrax]

Thank you; that was quick! :) I apologise if my original comment came across as rather harsh!

[pushtheenvelope]

idk, someone (moderator?) changed it back ...

[toolz]

I'm curious what you would change the title to so that you perceive it to be less provocative? In my (disclosure: not engaged in the community much at all) opinion the provocation here is simply because the topic touches on a controversial issue.

[rgoulter]

Maybe the "Why did ...?" can come across as confrontational. -- If something's good, you're less likely to ask "why do that?".

"What Nix Flakes Solve" or "Benefits of Nix Flakes" would avoid that.

But, I didn't read the title as provocative.