Thank you for making me feel like I'm not taking crazy pills.
I share the parent's frustration in trying to keep my head wrapped around what all the different players are in the space. I tend to agree that the more I look into Nix, the less it really seems like it will actually take off. But it's utterly confused to segue from that to "Therefore, they must not be solving any problems we really have."
I'm always wondering when I read one of these posts what setup they must have to get work done. Seriously, what do most people do? How is it apparently so easy to share development environments between your co-workers in a manageable way? And if the answer is "each employee starts out with the same laptop baselined in the same way, and then they work on one project which is in a monorepo, whose system dependencies are already installed on the laptop, and those dependencies never change" then... hello? You don't see that this is not a solution? I fundamentally _do not_ understand how anybody can live in the world and not be annoyed by this. What do they do? WHAT DO THEY DO?!
I share the parent's frustration in trying to keep my head wrapped around what all the different players are in the space. I tend to agree that the more I look into Nix, the less it really seems like it will actually take off. But it's utterly confused to segue from that to "Therefore, they must not be solving any problems we really have."
I'm always wondering when I read one of these posts what setup they must have to get work done. Seriously, what do most people do? How is it apparently so easy to share development environments between your co-workers in a manageable way? And if the answer is "each employee starts out with the same laptop baselined in the same way, and then they work on one project which is in a monorepo, whose system dependencies are already installed on the laptop, and those dependencies never change" then... hello? You don't see that this is not a solution? I fundamentally _do not_ understand how anybody can live in the world and not be annoyed by this. What do they do? WHAT DO THEY DO?!