NixOS has been my daily driver for just over a year and my impression is that it’s still all a big experiment. A promising one, but far from a polished product

NixOS has been my daily driver for just over a year and my impression is that it’s still all a big experiment. A promising one, but far from a polished product so try to avoid that framing. The Nix community is doing exciting work but in the long run I wouldn’t be surprised to see another project take its place in the mainstream once the ideas have matured. The current space has much of the same chaos as projects like Oh My Zsh or Spacemacs and needs to be treated more like an active hobby. All that considered, the core paradigm is a breath of fresh air and I can’t imagine going back to a mutable system.