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I feel this.

I ~empathize with people who wish it were simpler, and agree there are too many sharp corners. (For example, the traditional CLI certainly left a lot of room for improvement.)

I can vaguely imagine the prospect that something new gets this more-right than Nix, but on some level I also suspect most ~complainers aren't appreciating the scale of the domain complexity Nix closes over in order to forge The Nix Way and square decades of contrary software development/packaging/deployment practices with it.




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