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Playing devil's advocate, I think that these may be some great goals for a small team but I don't see how their roadmap really solves their intention. It is lik
by encryptluks2 4y ago
Playing devil's advocate, I think that these may be some great goals for a small team but I don't see how their roadmap really solves their intention. It is like Microsoft saying they want everyone to use Windows so they are going to add graphics support to the Windows Subsystem for Linux. People already using Linux aren't going to switch to Windows for that, unless they have to for a job.
People aren't going to switch to Nix unless they have a reason to, and frankly what they are proposing won't capture a lot of users. Maybe some Mac people who want more packages available, but that is about it. I like the idea of Nix, but it is going to take a lot more to get people to adopt it. Nix packages are ugly. Rather than build the API around package management like winget or to some extent pacman, they instead added a bunch of scripting so each package ends up looking like a clusterfuck. A lot of the features aren't even documented well.
- otabdeveloper4 4y agoOkay, but Nix isn't a package management tool.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoWhat? Nix is exactly a package management tool (and build system, and language, and Linux distro). And when people refer to nix, they usually also mean nixpkgs at the same time.