So many footguns... I get the idea behind a declarative OS like this. But the actual implementation seems to be very lacking. I understand there will always be overhead with new paradigms. But I don't see myself or any of the teams I work with implementing Nix when there is this much overhead to it.

The "how to install python" page is depressingly complicated.

Discussed in the past:

* March 15, 2022; 93 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30681182

* November 22, 2021; 161 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29303641