This is really good for the way it touches on pain points that new developments in the Nix world have the potential to fix. Namely: * the recursive update st

This is really good for the way it touches on pain points that new developments in the Nix world have the potential to fix. Namely: * the recursive update stuff could be handled better by the merge semantics in the Nickel language[1], which is coming together now and issues like this are being carefully considered * module-based packages, as recently proposed by Eelco, could also make overrides more natural * the pain of pulling in all of Nixpkgs just to get the library function is something that Nix flakes could potentially resolve I'd like to see a considered account of something like nix-thunk vs. Nix flakes for the latter use case, though. The post also gives a really clear account of what sucks about nix-env. I hope people who are actually important in the Nix community are also paying attention to this :D