Yeah I agree here, I used to find Nix somewhat unintuitive but I have now managed a few non-trivial projects. One being to package Xilinx ISE as a flake [0], an

Yeah I agree here, I used to find Nix somewhat unintuitive but I have now managed a few non-trivial projects. One being to package Xilinx ISE as a flake [0], and another to build an immutable Linux image using busybox and runit [1]. For the latter I still haven't quite gotten where I want but that's because I realised I needed dbus for avahi and dbus is just so ridiculously complex. [0] - https://github.com/benpye/nix-fpga-tools/ https://github.com/benpye/nix-fpga-tools/ [1] - https://github.com/benpye/nix-embedded https://github.com/benpye/nix-embedded