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Kind of, but not really. Nix is extremely complicated. Programs / projects including their dependencies is exceedingly simple.

Also, Windows is my primary dev environment. Any solution must work cross-platform and cross-distro. Telling everyone to use a specific distro is not a solution.




It is complicated... but honestly I have found claude 3.5 to just 'fix it'. So you hardly have to spend much time spelunking. You just give it all your dependencies and tell it what you want. It'll whip up a working flake in a few iterations. Kinda magic. So yeah when you can abstract out the complexity it moves the needle enough to make it worth it.


Nix != NixOS. It runs on WSL: https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL


Less than zero interest in WSL.

Nix fans are becoming as obnoxious as Rust fans. And I say that as an times annoying Rust fan.




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