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by IshKebab 226 days ago
Nix is enormously complicated, kind of unstable and not well documented.

I get that if you've gone through the pain of learning it you get a system with some very nice properties. But casually suggesting "maybe try nix" is a bit like telling someone who wants to listen to Mozart "maybe try playing a piano".
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331c8c71 226 days ago
How is it unstable? It's one of the most reliable pieces of software I have used honestly.

In any case 'nix-shell -p erlang|elixir' does not seem too complicated to me.

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IshKebab 226 days ago
Flakes is still experimental despite being very widely used.
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hamandcheese 224 days ago
Flakes is also more stable than many "stable" projects. Flakes is more stable than Python 3, for example.
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hamandcheese 224 days ago
OP is already trying to do something pretty un-casual:

> If you want to control the exact version that's being used across your team (via `asdf` or similar), this practically means you'll end up compiling the BEAM over and over...

So I think it is perfectly appropriate to suggest a sharp tool.

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