I'm annoyed that ever few months I'll start something new that I know will eventually run on Kudu and Impala (per my employer), but the local build requirements

I'm annoyed that ever few months I'll start something new that I know will eventually run on Kudu and Impala (per my employer), but the local build requirements are such that it's more effective to start with Postgres and figure out porting later on. As a NixOS user, I know the answer, but I just haven't allocated the time. Maybe this holiday season... Advent of Nix or something.