It'd be probably easy to guess which communities I mean, but I'd rather not name names myself and hope someone supports me with a datapoint to offset my personal paranoia.
Lately I encountered quite a lot of software - fringe and weird of course, but numerous enough - that went for having Nix as the only way to be deployed, typically with a "reproducible" script that doesn't work already after a year or two. As nix files make negative intuitive sense, not even in the smallest-scale bit-fiddling sense, so little intuitive sense that I cried once trying to just make it work - I look around for advice. One of "just take a couple of weeks to learn it, it's not that hard" is seen quickly enough, of course. It's a bit of pure loss from there: everyone who heard something like this knows that it's the moment to either invest fully or ignore and quietly move on and away. Confessing that you just don't think you'd find it in yourself to invest in it is almost a pure loss for one.
However, since we're not in one of those communities, let me say why not. I'm as sure that the good idea of reproducible builds will be implemented soon enough with something intuitive, strongly-typed, easily debuggable/diagnostable and dev-friendly, as I'm sure that diesel cars will be obsolete soon enough not to even think about investing my time and money in them. Regardless of what the current usage says - e.g. in Germany one would make a mistake to follow its wisdom just a few years ago, in case of cars, I mean.
Lately I encountered quite a lot of software - fringe and weird of course, but numerous enough - that went for having Nix as the only way to be deployed, typically with a "reproducible" script that doesn't work already after a year or two. As nix files make negative intuitive sense, not even in the smallest-scale bit-fiddling sense, so little intuitive sense that I cried once trying to just make it work - I look around for advice. One of "just take a couple of weeks to learn it, it's not that hard" is seen quickly enough, of course. It's a bit of pure loss from there: everyone who heard something like this knows that it's the moment to either invest fully or ignore and quietly move on and away. Confessing that you just don't think you'd find it in yourself to invest in it is almost a pure loss for one.
However, since we're not in one of those communities, let me say why not. I'm as sure that the good idea of reproducible builds will be implemented soon enough with something intuitive, strongly-typed, easily debuggable/diagnostable and dev-friendly, as I'm sure that diesel cars will be obsolete soon enough not to even think about investing my time and money in them. Regardless of what the current usage says - e.g. in Germany one would make a mistake to follow its wisdom just a few years ago, in case of cars, I mean.