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Comment by Nihmie | original | Nix wrote half of my debugger
[−]Nihmie · 2026-10-11 Sun 01:16 UTC · link
Before AI, there was virtually no documentation, and there are so many ways to do any single thing that it makes it brutal to figure out what any given configuration was trying to do.

Is `nix` amazing though? Eh... if it were implemented better, it could be amazing. It's like python virtual environments or `pyproject.toml` for general software. It solves a real problem, but it does so by introducing a possibly even bigger problem.

[−]pmarreck · 2026-10-11 Sun 05:07 UTC · link
No.

it's more like, it definitively solves a problem forever, like nothing else.

It's like when you have immutable data and it permanently solves a class of problems that can result from mutable data.

It's sort of like that.