I agree. Nix is awesome in a way, but it's also a product of it's time (early/mid 2000s). It definitely solved the problem of reproducible build environments, b

I agree. Nix is awesome in a way, but it's also a product of it's time (early/mid 2000s). It definitely solved the problem of reproducible build environments, but it didn't solve isolated environments like docker did. It also has an issue where there are soany ways to do things, it's hard to know what the best way is for your situation (especially between flakes and nonflakes). But I'd say the biggest issue with Nix in general is it's lack of discoverability. This is evidenced in the number of third-party tools built around helping figure out what even exists (noogle.dev and search.nixos.org for example). The language is so dynamic, trying to figure out where things are coming from becomes difficult. Simply put, there's too much magic. Nix also has a tendency to drop down into massive bash scripts to actually do stuff. I really like guix as an alternative in theory, but I haven't had much luck using it yet.