I'm always cautious about who I recommend Nix to, but I usually say that one of the best things waiting on the other side of the learning curve is what an incre

I'm always cautious about who I recommend Nix to, but I usually say that one of the best things waiting on the other side of the learning curve is what an incredible always-improving lever nix and nixpkgs can be for just about any task that involves or benefits from ~integrating a lot of software. But it's also hard to communicate what I mean by that without diving into a bunch of detail on some case where it proved useful to me. The ability to give uutils a shake at scale is a paragon. At some point I imagine it'll be able help ferret out a good fraction of remaining long-tail issues with oilshell's mostly-bash-compatible `osh` in short order.