I do like makefiles. I am not at the point I have a mental model of what Nix really is that I have with git. I understand it has something to do with derivati

I do like makefiles. I am not at the point I have a mental model of what Nix really is that I have with git. I understand it has something to do with derivations where each package is a collection of files at a given version and the data and state is immutable. Which reminds me of Git. It's also a programming language for expressions which evaluate to a hierarchy of files on disk. pkgs.git, pkgs.vim I find the tooling, command line utilities aren't immediately understandable to me. I just rely on that Replit have implemented the Nix integration so that when you change "replit.nix" it just updates the environment :-) I really ought to give an immutable desktop a go at some point such as Silverblue .