I played around with Nix (not NixOS) a bit. First I tried to use it for managing python dependencies, but that didn't work out properly because some of the pyth

I played around with Nix (not NixOS) a bit. First I tried to use it for managing python dependencies, but that didn't work out properly because some of the python modules i needed were only available on APT. Then i tried to use it for managing different compiler versions. It was super easy to install GCC in many versions, but then come compiler time I couldn't compile anything because some libraries (that are not in my power to change) used hard coded absolute paths to standard library dependencies, that would in turn include incompatible files from the compiler. So in essence I would have liked a replacement for Docker, but the issue is I couldn't get the Nix way of doing things to interoperate with the non PyPi Python World, or existing libraries. This isn't quite the fault of Nix, just that I couldn't use it in a bit more complex real world scenarios.