Other programs I've tried: Puppet, Ansible, Pip, Poetry, Virtualenv, Vagrant, NPM, Yarn, Gradle, Docker, Apt, Yum, Make, and many more I can't remember the names of.
It would be difficult to convince myself from ten years ago that Nix was even a good idea without trying it. The change is probably as fundamental as going from ./configure && make && make install to a package manager, or from no version control to Git. I'll give it a try
You can replace the vast majority of the use cases of the other programs above with Nix – it's not just another tool on the pile.
Software: Nix
Need: Package management
Other programs I've tried: Puppet, Ansible, Pip, Poetry, Virtualenv, Vagrant, NPM, Yarn, Gradle, Docker, Apt, Yum, Make, and many more I can't remember the names of.
It would be difficult to convince myself from ten years ago that Nix was even a good idea without trying it. The change is probably as fundamental as going from
./configure && make && make installto a package manager, or from no version control to Git. I'll give it a try- You can replace the vast majority of the use cases of the other programs above with Nix – it's not just another tool on the pile.
- Do you ever work on more than one
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