It would be massively helpful if there were good IDE (tooling) for editing nix files. e.g. on par with the quality of Java editing in IntelliJ This would help

It would be massively helpful if there were good IDE (tooling) for editing nix files. e.g. on par with the quality of Java editing in IntelliJ This would help massively for folks learning how to do things. Besides that, I just keep wondering — and tweag said it too — if some tool that did nix-shell and nixpkgs would be enough. At the end of the day, a lot of folks are really just using nix like Python‘s virtualenv — i.e. declare what you need, change $PATH to include it in a sandboxed environment.