I truly hope not as well. I spent an extensive period of time trying to learn Nix and integrate it into my homelab. Granted, it's not an enterprise environment,

I truly hope not as well. I spent an extensive period of time trying to learn Nix and integrate it into my homelab. Granted, it's not an enterprise environment, but it is the most painful, unstable, broken, buggy, bloated, hard-to-use, poorly-documented mess I've ever tried. I hope no one touches Nix with a ten-foot pole. That's not to say it's not a great idea. It's just a huge pain to get to work, and the cost of trying to get a perfectly-working Nix environment is just *not* worth it. In my case, I was working with orchestrating virtual machines, which… well, there's a project called nixops that claims to do this. The thing is it flat-out didn't work half the time (also used python2.7 and I believe one of its dependencies were marked as insecure for a long period of time). I got so frustrated with this "advertised" nixops tool, that had to write my own replacement for nixops, and while it was a fun experience, I was so burnt-out from dealing with Nix and its breaking randomly every ten seconds, I just gave up on my homelab. If you want any program that doesn't exist for Nix, you can't just use the program's build script. You have to manually make a Nix derivation, and then pray and hope it will actually compile. Want to deploy your Ruby on Rails application on NixOS? Prepare to spend three days trying to set this up, since there's only one other application and the entire process is poorly documented (even for a "regular" Ruby program that isn't Rails). Without additional work, Nix will never be worth its cost (did I mention the interpreter took forever and sometimes failed on errors in files that had NOTHING to do with yours, leaving you to manually debug each line?). You could spend the days upon days upon days trying to get the damned thing to work for something far more useful instead. Since once you get Nix to work, it will break. I'm sorry if I offended any Nix users/developers, but the product is just not ready for anything yet IMHO. I just don't have time to deal with it anymore, and I'd rather get on doing something more fun than dealing with a bloated, undocumented system that I can just replace with Docker and get my work done in 5 minutes instead of 5 days.