People are asking 'why does speed matter?' If you use nix then you'll know that a “nix-shell -p” is basically the url-bar of the browser. If a browser is a VM

People are asking 'why does speed matter?' If you use nix then you'll know that a “nix-shell -p” is basically the url-bar of the browser. If a browser is a VM in your OS then why not run distri in a VM and speedily launch native apps, horribly useless example.. for now. If the browser is eating the world anyway then incentives to have native apps be incompatible between operating systems fade away and throwaway envs like nix-shell (and to a lesser extent nixos-shell) become even more interesting. . So long as they are fast enough to feel as effortless as opening a web page.