A few months ago I saw someone hacking the linker to get mundane package management working in Nix. It was bubbling up to the top of my "to try" list and that bumped it back down. It'll be good eventually, I'm sure.

> It'll be good eventually, I'm sure.

not with this attitude of getting scared of things by watching someone doing something, for sure

I have fixed enough (dynamic) linker issues for this lifetime and probably several more. I think I'll let the kids take these. Godspeed.

That you can use without having 4 PhDs. It's pretty good. You should try it sometime when your done fully ingesting algebraic topology theory or whatever the fuck Nix requires to know just to install figlet.

Try flox [0]. It's an imperative frontend for Nix that I've been using. I don't know how to use nix-shell/flakes or whatever it is they do now, but flox makes it easy to just install stuff.

[0]: https://flox.dev/

> You should try it sometime when your done fully ingesting algebraic topology theory or whatever the fuck Nix requires to know

aka how to say that you've never really tried learning Nix without saying it directly.

Oh come on, it's not that hard even for packaging stuff (let alone usage). Quite trivial compared to leetcode grind I'd say.

You say that, but there seems be a vast chasm between “can solve LC hards” and “can administer an OS,” even though the latter is generally not at all abstract, extremely well-documented, and almost certainly has associated man pages.

Everybody will reinvent Nix if they are in software engineering long enough ...

If only... Majority will use whatever is shoved up their a## be it docker or anything else.