alt Hacker NewsNix has caused so much busywork to be created through the entire Linux ecosystem. Rather than fixing their own project they force work upon so many others.
Instead of looking for ways Nix could work with ensuring else they force everything else to be modified to work with Nix. You will constantly seem them trying to get projects to adapt a flake.nix or to replace bash scripts with a different shebang since they hardcode a single binary that is rare for people to use in the real world.
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farfatched • today at 10:51 AM
Nobody forces projects to accept changes that add support for various platforms, yet it's common that they do.
Nix is one such platform.
>Rather than fixing their own project they force work upon so many others.
Nix has put in a ton of work to make their project work, and the assumptions in the rest of the ecosystem have been fighting every step of the way. And I would argue they've been changing it for the better, considering that if you were to just 'try to make nix work' you'd probably mainly come to the conclusion that it was impossible to make work sensibly due to the huge number of places where hardcoded relationships have been baked in.