Using nix ups the complexity of a project by so much. Most folks who would be attracted to this solution are already using containers. Personally, for me, thi

Using nix ups the complexity of a project by so much. Most folks who would be attracted to this solution are already using containers. Personally, for me, this solution is basically the "Cloud Vagrant" solution that Hashicorp should have launched something over a decade ago, but couldn't get out of their own way to do. Whether it's containers or VMs, it just makes sense. It's made sense for a long time. We started using VMs for dev work when I was deploying servers on Windows back in the early 2000s. Registry chaos, dealing with patches, and having to sit through multi-DVD installs of Visual Studio tooling just made this make sense. Personally, I don't understand people that do development work without at least a VM. If not a VM, a netboot remote host that you can restore to a known state really quickly without interfering with your "productivity" desktop (email, calendar, chat, videoconf, document editing, browser, &c.).