> When I, like many other computer programmers, tell my friends who don’t write code that “it’s a miracle that modern technology even works”, Nix is one of thos

> When I, like many other computer programmers, tell my friends who don’t write code that “it’s a miracle that modern technology even works”, Nix is one of those things that I’m referring to. Interesting. Since I've started using Nix for managing my environment & projects, it's the only thing that I'm confident will work. I have no idea how the RPM & DEB ecosystems, among others, work when random dependency breakage can happen all the time. This is extra true when building Docker images whose Dockerfile's second line is almost always `apt-get update && apt-get install [list-of-packages]`. I've had so many problems with that process over the years that I've wondered how anything worked at all. Nix was like some heavenly realm where I could be 99.9% confident the build would work every time.