alt Hacker NewsHa that’s funny, considering nixos is 99% stdenv which is one of the worst bash monstrosities in existence, and drives people ever further into the swamp of bash. (Ever tried to debug stdenv setup hooks? I still have water damage from the tears.)
I have personally embraced the insanity but let’s not kid ourselves about nixos basically just being three bashes in a trench coat.
Basically https://xkcd.com/224/ , but s/lisp/nix/ s/perl/bash/
It's my daily driver, but I am holding my nose.
Some year something better will show up from someone with more taste (and I know I am not alone in having thoughts on what it would look like), but for now the yak has already been shaven. At least the builds are sandboxed.