I do think that Nix or something like it is the future. Or at least it will be if the tech community as a whole doesn't screw up. But I also really appreciate

I do think that Nix or something like it is the future. Or at least it will be if the tech community as a whole doesn't screw up. But I also really appreciate the massive effort that Debian maintainers make, and the sheer number of those maintainers. Combining whatever human processes Debian have in place to keep that going with Nix would be fantastic. Right now, to use Nix regularly, you really have to be willing to read a lot of Nixpkgs source code. Edit: I should also note that I do actually currently use Nix on top of Debian for my work machine. Servers are all NixOS machines deployed with NixOps though.