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I disagree with the premise. I havent seem much net change in popularity. It's still widely lambasted even by it's adherents as deeply woefully lacking in middl

I disagree with the premise. I havent seem much net change in popularity. It's still widely lambasted even by it's adherents as deeply woefully lacking in middle-ground documentation especially- there's docs for absolute newbies, there's og posts discussing super advanced juju, but hardly anything inbetween. There's few guides helping explaim the wild nixscripts one come to face.

brendanfalk 5y ago
This Google Trend graph shows an increase popularity. The increase has been fairly linear since 2014 but there were notable spikes in late 2021 and early 2022 https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%2Fg%2F11bw4cknm7 https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...
- pcthrowaway 4y ago
  I assumed this discussion was about the package manager and not the OS
  - JamesSwift 4y ago
    Agreed. Nix always means Nix Package Manager unless NixOS is specified. Its hard to distinguish `Nix` from `Nix package manager` in google trends though, so the "NixOS" trendline might be the best proxy for popularity of the entire ecosystem.
iswkq 4y ago
> we are starting to trend on newcomers! While the majority have used Nix or NixOS in the 1 to 3 year range (37%), 30% of respondents have joined the Nix community in the last year. Our expectation is that as we continue to improve Nix and NixOS we should be seeing a positive trend that leans towards more Nix users <1 year. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-nix-survey-results/18983 https://discourse.nixos.org/t/2022-nix-survey-results/18983