Trying to decide on whether to use Nix on my new Macbook… the idea of Nix always appeals to me, but I always get lost in all the decisions I need to make when setting it up. Do I wait for another release cycle and just go with Brew for now? 🤔
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Hmm, seems like things seem to be moving towards flakes at least, but yeah it does seem to be a bit in flux, which is why I was wondering whether to hold off. But yeah I'm giving it a go – will see how bad it ends up going!
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I still haven't moved my nix-shells to flakes. Will chat with you when I do.
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They seem to have gone back to being experimental, so I'm wary of depending on them too much. But I'm trying to avoid doing too much in the way of fancy stuff, so hopefully it won't be too much of an issue.
That said, coming from using cargo, flakes and the nix-command seem to gel a bit nicer with my brain than the legacy stuff (I've struggled in the past with them), so I'm going to have a go at using those first.
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"Experimental" to me seems to mean "don't deploy prod sites with flakes unless you really know what you're doing", not "we'll take them away".
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