was wondering when this guy would drop a video on nix. pleasantly surprised by the result, although i do find it funny that he had to go well over the usual 100 seconds. that's nix for you.<p>one benefit that doesn't get much lipservice in elevator pitches for nix, here included, is the experience of packaging. i think the average line count in my personal collection of obscure software is ~30, and that's including license/homepage metadata and other such junk -- it can make even bsd portfiles look tubby by comparison.
Nix sounds cool. Nowadays when I dev my research, I usually use docker so that I can move my "machine" to any server in my lab. Not sure how I should fit Nix into my workflow.
The problem for me isn't installing packages and their dependencies but removing the dependencies when clearing a package. Too many package managers leave garbage on the system just in case and now I have packages for who knows what