As someone who could reasonably be called a Nix zealot, who has just had to spelunk through far too many layers of abstraction and infrastructure to get some cu

As someone who could reasonably be called a Nix zealot, who has just had to spelunk through far too many layers of abstraction and infrastructure to get some custom TLS certificates recognized on a macOS+Nix setup, I welcome attempts to simplify the stack rather than wrap everything. Nix is great when you're on the happy path and its ability to offer a near-perfect reproducible environment right off the bat is unparalleled, I can't think of anything else that does nearly as well. But there are plenty of ways to fall off of the happy path, and when that happens it can be a fairly lonely or worrying experience. Unison looks like it takes the whole development experience and owns it, and that allows for faster experimentation across layers of the stack. I think the implementation is pretty neat and I really hope they continue working on it.