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This article felt like a strong argument against Nix rather than in favor of it. The complexity it brings is just not worth the gains for the majority of people

This article felt like a strong argument against Nix rather than in favor of it. The complexity it brings is just not worth the gains for the majority of people that I know. No, most people won't be happy that Nix breaks dynamic linking. Docker with a Debian Stable base will solve the problems listed for most users, with 1% of the time investment. The author used Nix for 8 years, and I'm not surprised it looks a bit simpler to them now.

codethief 1y ago
> No, most people won't be happy that Nix breaks dynamic linking. True. In my case I just enabled nix-ld[0,1] and now everything works flawlessly. [0]: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-ld https://github.com/nix-community/nix-ld [1]: https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Nix-ld https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Nix-ld
- nylonstrung 1y ago
  This is one area where Nix needs a sane default I wish Nix-ld was just bundled into Nix