[ildjarn]

What the post misses is that lots of packages are not available on Nix, but everything is available on Docker automatically.

If what you need is available, however, then it can be so much better.

[georgyo]

What is automatic about docker? Do you mean other people have already put in the work? Or do you mean that it's more trivial to pip/npm/cargo install stuff?

[pluto_modadic]

Nix as package management, yes - you're waiting on someone else to make upstream work.

Where Debian/PIP/NPM/Cargo already do work.

Nix as an instruction set, no, you still have to declare what you want, same as a dockerfile.

it's just... Docker will do what a shell script will.

Nix is like hoping someone's done the upstream finagling to get your particular dependencies happy.

[ildjarn]

If something works in a distro, it automatically works in a Dockerfile based on that distro. There is no extra packaging effort required.