Nix is an incredibly far-sighted vision, and it's great to work with... once you get your head around it all. I much prefer to build containers using it, and it

Nix is an incredibly far-sighted vision, and it's great to work with... once you get your head around it all. I much prefer to build containers using it, and it does a much better job of "provisioning" than any other tool I've used. I remember being appalled when I first used Ansible and discovering that adding a package, then removing the stanza to add that package, resulted in the package persisting on the system.