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> It's about how much of a pain it is to get things working when things aren't nice and you don't know what to do. Thank you for highlighting this. I love ele
by gugagore 5y ago
> It's about how much of a pain it is to get things working when things aren't nice and you don't know what to do.
Thank you for highlighting this. I love elegance, safety, reproducibility, declarative specifications, etc. But the minute I get the sense of "this philosophy is getting in the way. I am stuck, even though I know exactly what to do below this layer of abstraction", I get very annoyed.
That's why I asked about "escape hatches" in a sibling comment.
- kaba0 5y agoWorst case just run chroots, or docker for the rare case something really don’t want to run under Nix. But it rarely happens anymore, it has a huge ecosystem with almost everything packaged so depending on how niche is the thing you work on, it can be a really comfortable environment.