I have not personally used Spack, but a similar product in HPC, and I have often wondered why something analogous did not take off for desktop computing. We are

I have not personally used Spack, but a similar product in HPC, and I have often wondered why something analogous did not take off for desktop computing. We are finally seeing the rise of Nix, but the experience is currently so bad, I will give it a decade before it starts gaining serious traction. Sooner only if some big platform latches onto it.