> The insanity of the usermode packagers is that they're not popular enough to be easy to hire for (probably excepting Homebrew, though I've never seen it on Li

> The insanity of the usermode packagers is that they're not popular enough to be easy to hire for (probably excepting Homebrew, though I've never seen it on Linux). I can grab a random resume from a stack and be almost positive that they know how to install and upgrade software with apt/yum. True and very unfortunate. Hopefully this changes as (tools like) Nix and Guix continue to grow and develop! They're really well-suited to this. > I would bet the percentage of candidates who can compile Postgres and use outweigh the number that can install and use Postgres from Nix. I think installing and using Postgres from Nix is definitely easier, although sure, fewer devs might already know that they can easily do it. > I'm not saying it's perfect, but I'll take it over being forced to use Windows or Mac natively. At least it's familiar, even if it is slow. Yeah, I think we're agreed. I'm just feeling especially frustrated with the setup lately. > Most of the pragmatic issues recur inside the VM, but a lot of organizationally imposed ones go away. I'm not saying it's logical, but I've yet to win an argument with compliance. That's true. I hope it stays that way.