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Your honesty is refreshing. I've seen countless people trying a new technology/tool, and overselling it as 'amazing' and super easy. Seeing a post like yours
by Majestic121 5y ago
Your honesty is refreshing.
I've seen countless people trying a new technology/tool, and overselling it as 'amazing' and super easy.
Seeing a post like yours helps to keep the discussion grounded in reality, with tools that looks nice on paper but have practical downsides as well.
- abathur 5y agoI agree with this general sentiment, but I'll add that it's worth reading most posts about Nix through this lens. Finding your sea legs is rough, and IME people who completely deny this are few and far between. The reward is a pretty impressive lever.
- ronenlh 5y agoThe thing I use and like most in nix is nix-shell. I set up a shell.nix file on my projects, and together with direnv the environment switches with the right dependencies for each project. Shameless plug, I wrote about this recently on medium: https://link.medium.com/cYkKMtdHRkb https://link.medium.com/cYkKMtdHRkb
- pxc 5y agoNix IS amazing. It is NOT super easy. Parts of it are getting easier, and it has an exceptionally smart and helpful community. But it's not smooth and pretty and easy to pick up like Homebrew is. (And that does suck)