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Nix is common among consultancies because the more switching between projects you do, the more it pays off. If you like every 6 months (or merely every job chan

Nix is common among consultancies because the more switching between projects you do, the more it pays off. If you like every 6 months (or merely every job change!) fuck with APT, your bashrc, etc. with a little stack overflowing during onboarding, whatever. It's too rare to be worth optimizing; I get it. If you switch projects every 2 weeks, the calculus changes greatly. I do work at one of them now, but I got into Nix as a student hobbyist, when I was also rotating through homework assignments and personal projects quickly.

KronisLV 5y ago
> Nix is common among consultancies because the more switching between projects you do, the more it pays off. I feel like this is perhaps situational? I am yet to see Nix be used once in about 5 years of development in many projects in Eastern Europe, both governmental in private sector. Though maybe the industry here is lagging behind trends - only in the past 3 years or so Docker has started gaining a foothold and even large corporations are just figuring out how to run their own Kubernetes clusters and Docker Swarm is still in use in some places, or even just Docker Compose. Then again, some of these projects don't even have systemd services in place to ensure that they can be controlled easily, so who knows... Manually launching Tomcat or GlassFish instances never inspires confidence.
- Ericson2314 5y ago
  > I feel like this is perhaps situational? I am yet to see Nix be used once in about 5 years of development in many projects in Eastern Europe, both governmental in private sector. Hah! Nix is super European, and from my American vantage point the more west you go, the fewer Nix users there are! I first learned of the whole Eastern Europe consulting phenomenon via the Nix community too.