In my experience Nix works pretty great for developer environments when you don't previously have anything more than manually configured dev servers. (In genera

In my experience Nix works pretty great for developer environments when you don't previously have anything more than manually configured dev servers. (In general Nix is much easier to buy into if you don't already extensively use Docker, k8s, etc.) For smaller teams with less experienced developers any tool is going to have a fairly high learning curve. Instead of having everyone learn Nix or Docker, it's very easier to have a few, more Linux experienced devs configure servers and devshells using Nix while providing simple TUI for developers to access various tools. There are some headaches, if you want to use a full NixOS environment then there are some complications with tools like VSCode and NodeJS that download dynamically linked binaries but its terrible difficult to workaround.