LLMs are getting very good at packaging software using Nix.
replyThen you're committing to maintaining a package for that software.
replyLike all LLM boosters, you've ignored the fact that the largest time sink in many kinds of software is not initial development, but perpetual maintenance.
It's not materially any different from maintaining lines in a Dockerfile.
replyThis. I wouldn't have touched Nix when you needed someone who was really good at Nix to keep it working, but agents make it viable to use in a number of place.
replyPackaging for nix is exceptionally easy once you learn it. And once something is packaged, it's solved for all, it's not going to randomly break.
replyIf you care about getting it to work with minimal effort right now more thar about it being sustainable later, then sure.
I use software from pretty much every language with Nix. And I package it myself too when needed. Including Python often :)
replyNix doesn't make sense if all you're going to use it for is building Docker images. It only makes sense if you're all in in the first place. Then Docker images are free.
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