[aliasxneo]

It was just surprising, is all. When I use use <x> application from a nix shell, it pretty much always works the way I think. The compiler experience was very jarring, but yes I understand why it works the way it does.

I was more or less pointing out the UX issues with Nix that end up turning many people away.

[yeck]

There is definitely a learning investment in order to write good Nix expressions. But, if you write a good nix shell expression for your project, other devs should be able to jump in without really needing to understand those Nix expressions and still get a working environment.