[deng]

> There are tens of thousands of organizations that depend on it every day, and projects that are funded on the time scale of decades. It's here to stay.

I like Nix, but what turns me off most is this kind of hyperbole from its evangelists. "tens of thousands of organizations" depend on Nix every day? How do you even come up with that kind of number? And as someone who has actually worked on projects that are funded for decades: the first rule is that things are changing, so stay flexible, chose boring technology, and always have a plan for migration. Binding yourself to a niche framework that is also strongly opinionated with an arcane syntax is pretty much the worst you could do.

As you say, Nix is already over 20 years old, so yes, it's probably not going anywhere, but that goes both ways: it will probably not vanish in the near future, but it'll probably also not become really popular. And that's fine.