> The apparent learning curve for nix looks...steep. It looks like so, indeed the manual is fairly extensive yet it probably lacks a hands-on approach. That's

> The apparent learning curve for nix looks...steep. It looks like so, indeed the manual is fairly extensive yet it probably lacks a hands-on approach. That's what I'm aiming to solve by writing a couple of articles explaining pragmatically how to use Nix (not NixOS, I'm not quite there yet), starting as a Homebrew replacement. And really, at the end of the day the new language is not really harder than having to learn Ruby and the Formula DSL, or ABS idioms and its shell idiosyncrasies in PKGBUILDs.