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> I cannot in good faith recommend it for anything professional. What separates the professional from the 'personal and hobby stuff': the need for (timely) rel
by rgoulter 3y ago
> I cannot in good faith recommend it for anything professional.
What separates the professional from the 'personal and hobby stuff': the need for (timely) reliability, and that you want other people to be able to maintain it.
With Nix, because it's so strict, it's more difficult to quickly kludge a solution. If something doesn't work as you expect, it may demand understanding of different parts of the solution stack.
That Nix isn't widely adopted means it's harder to find e.g. StackOverflow answers for problems.
In the blogpost, an example of a problem they had to work around was that fish's configuration expected to work statefully in a way which didn't work well with Nix's Home Manager's declarative nature.