Also having worked in a large Nix dev environment, I find it quite intuitive to use and the reproducibility is a great way to ensure your bugs aren't caused by

Also having worked in a large Nix dev environment, I find it quite intuitive to use and the reproducibility is a great way to ensure your bugs aren't caused by an incorrectly set environment variable or something random like that. It does get a bit annoying when you need a package not available in nixpgs but thats true of any build system