I expect Nix to become more popular due to its ability to build static binaries. The key benefit that nixpkgs has over other Linux distributions' package sets

I expect Nix to become more popular due to its ability to build static binaries. The key benefit that nixpkgs has over other Linux distributions' package sets on this topic are: 1. It allows you to _program_ your package set, thus adding static-linking overrides to 1000s of libraries/executables in a go, instead of having to modify each package manually. 2. It allows the end user to choose what linking they want, as opposed to the Linux distribution making that decision for them upfront. 3. It allows to do this from any Linux distribution.