... but it "does the job better than anything else could".
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This is the issue I have with the whole nix discourse: it's hailed as this great magical tool. But when pressed for details it's always this: weird commands, configs, working or non-working wrappers etc.
This is just from my experience, I'm not part of any kind of Nix cult or anything, not that I'm aware of.
I don't know what you're talking about re: third party wrappers, this is just an option for a slightly easier and perhaps more robust install. And homebrew isn't free of issues at all.
troupo|9 months ago
- worse ux (nix commands are much more cumbersome and often make no sense compared to `brew install`)
- you have to use some third-party wrappers to make it work on Mac
- features incomplete and outdated packages (and is missing others apparently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44034446)
... but it "does the job better than anything else could".
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This is the issue I have with the whole nix discourse: it's hailed as this great magical tool. But when pressed for details it's always this: weird commands, configs, working or non-working wrappers etc.
lambdaba|9 months ago
I don't know what you're talking about re: third party wrappers, this is just an option for a slightly easier and perhaps more robust install. And homebrew isn't free of issues at all.