Lots of people can't "give it a shot" because it is so different from everything else. That's also why it has no foothold in any corporate environment. Even the

Lots of people can't "give it a shot" because it is so different from everything else. That's also why it has no foothold in any corporate environment. Even the amount of small businesses that use Nix for development is so small it's insignificant (but is exists). The main issue (I think) is that it boils down to "a worse shell script" shaped in a LISP kind of wrapper. Plenty of people know about LISP too but will simply not even look at it because it is too different. Even if you take away the functional paradigm it just doesn't look like anything that can map to an existing knowledge base. This is also why C-esque languages (and I'm talking about the non-edge-cases here) are so prevalent and successful; they don't have to be 'the best' or even 'good', they just have to be easy to map to existing knowledge to be useful. And Nix doesn't do that.