Minor grievance, but I've never had particularly good luck with search engines and the term "nix". Usually I get things for `*nix` or NixOS. Even if I search for `nix package manager`, I would get things like "Congress nixes package ..." as the top few results.
Way too much work for a personal machine.<p>I can see where it might be useful in formal environments and have used nix before sparingly. I found quickly that you need to get in the habit of using the same package manager, when after a few months I couldn't remember how to use a nix package or didn't know how to update a package properly (can't remember exactly what the problem was).
Yeah, exactly the same work as you would need with an OS-supplied package
manager to build your own package. For some reason, though, this is considered
sexy, while doing the very same thing for RPM or DEB is regarded as boring and
troublesome.
This is all well and good, and certainly the more examples the better, but this will only work so long as one is on GNU/Linux and so long as the compile or link stage don't bust.<p>And then, this whole complicated wrapper shatters.