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"books written in pencil on napkins" is analogous to how most web application projects are organised today. Nix would be the formalisation of this.
by yakshaving_jgt 6y ago
"books written in pencil on napkins" is analogous to how most web application projects are organised today. Nix would be the formalisation of this.
- atoav 6y agoNever used nix, but their stated goal is to make implicit dependecies explicit (and reproducible). Isn't it only natural for this to sometimes bring a dependency hell to light, that otherwise could have been swept under the rug? Or phrased differently: maybe the problem here wasn't nix, but the way developers chose their dependecies