[mjhoy]

Nix is very cool, and I encourage anyone to at least install nix on their machine and try it out. I started using it on my Mac, mostly to set up a Haskell environment, which at the time meant quicker builds than using other tools, due to the binary cache.

I now use it for python, scala, emacs and basically wherever else I can get away with not using Homebrew. I share the config [1] between my work and personal machine. This works really well: it's just a git pull, and a `nix-env -iA nixpkgs.devEnv` and my environment is updated (and I can easily roll back to the previous state if something goes wrong). It does take a lot of up-front investment, learning a new language and paradigm, but once things are working they tend to stay working.

[1]: https://github.com/mjhoy/dotfiles/blob/master/nix/nixpkgs/co...