I think the entire concept of nix is a broken model not fixable by docs and better DX. Precompiled, portable binaries are the way to go which is what mise is built on. Trying to maintain this separate build chain where everything is compiled in a sandbox gives your system a "split-brain" problem where you have the "nix world" and the "macos (or whatever) world". Ultimately, this just causes problems. Of course I'm ignoring NixOS but that's a sledgehammer for this supposed "problem" nix is trying to solve in the first place.
mise is for the 90% of developers that just want things to be fast and work and don't care about the nuts and bolts.
alt Hacker News
I think the entire concept of nix is a broken model not fixable by docs and better DX. Precompiled, portable binaries are the way to go which is what mise is built on. Trying to maintain this separate build chain where everything is compiled in a sandbox gives your system a "split-brain" problem where you have the "nix world" and the "macos (or whatever) world". Ultimately, this just causes problems. Of course I'm ignoring NixOS but that's a sledgehammer for this supposed "problem" nix is trying to solve in the first place.
mise is for the 90% of developers that just want things to be fast and work and don't care about the nuts and bolts.