You only have to be burned by an NPM packaging dumpster fire so many times before you start appreciating hermetic builds. Unfortunately, Nix and Guix are tryin

You only have to be burned by an NPM packaging dumpster fire so many times before you start appreciating hermetic builds. Unfortunately, Nix and Guix are trying to work around the issue by warping the whole world around toolchains that were never built with reproducability in mind. So many tool chains just download executables and run them as part of the build process - NPM packages do this, Android app build process does this, Rust packages do this. Turing completeness is too good to give up and gives people the freedom to deploy sloppy solutions.