I think it's time to give Nix a chance

The modern developer tooling ecosystem has exploded with choices, leading to frustrating scenarios where some piece of code builds perfectly on someone’s system, runs flawlessly in production, but mysteriously fails to build for you and you have absolutely no idea why. You’re left debugging with no clear direction—perhaps it’s a missing system dependency, a subtly different library version, or some environment variable that exists somewhere in the void, and nowhere else. If this sounds familiar, you too might be experiencing the fundamental problem that Nix was designed to solve: the lack of true reproducibility in software development. Despite being around for about two decades, Nix has largely flown under the radar of mainstream development. Most developers have heard of it in passing—often described as “that functional package manager with a steep learning curve” or “the thing NixOS uses”—dismissing it as academic or overly complex. I believe this perception is getting increasingl ... Read full article.