I only noticed recently that I have a tendency to search for reasons to use a tool. I literally googled "Do I need to learn Go?". You'd think it would work the

I only noticed recently that I have a tendency to search for reasons to use a tool. I literally googled "Do I need to learn Go?". You'd think it would work the other way around: I can't accomplish something with a language I use today, so I go searching for a language that solves my problem. Instead I'm literally looking for excuses to learn the most popular thing. It's absurd. (and really it's resume-driven development) In terms of Nix versus Docker, they're completely different levels of abstraction and solve completely different problems. Docker is (among other things... it does a lot of things) an abstraction for reproducing network services on arbitrary platforms. Nix is an abstraction for installing and setting up files.