I think you get that in most posts advocating for nix: its hard to spinup on as a concept/system. At least for me personally, I've always tried to add that dis

I think you get that in most posts advocating for nix: its hard to spinup on as a concept/system. At least for me personally, I've always tried to add that disclaimer, and very few nix-accolades recommend nix _wholesale, no questions asked_ to a random viewer. Almost everyone I know who is all-in on nix recommends nix with caveats, and only after doing some vetting of who you are recommending it to. That said, even though it is hard... the pain is worth it in the end. Once you get over the hump, its a refreshing ecosystem to rely on overall. One of the main reasons I say that is because it is uniquely positioned to hit both the throwaway script and the production system. You can use it to do all of the following: - Install things to the system temporarily - Write scripts that are copy-pasteable between machines - Setup monorepos with multiple languages targeted - Run "bare metal" docker-like systems directly on the host - Build bare-minimum docker containers - Configure your host OS in a reproducible way - Build prod servers in a reproducible way - Safely upgrade/rollback a computer - Share computer configuration in a simple data-driven manner