alt Hacker NewsI don't want to bore my HackerNews fellows, so I'm sorry in advance, but wasn't there a lot of drama in the Nix community? I've read some time ago that a private company was buying parts of its infrastructure (or something like that) and forcing some changes upstream and people were not happy about it.
I'm interested in NixOS, but I'm at an age where I just want things to stay stable and change only when they really have to. I already have a lot of big mandatory changes from life itself, I don't need more :)
I'm writing this in good faith. I'm genuinely curious and interested in trying it again.
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There was, it’s mostly dried up now that a bunch of the loudest voices split off to Lix. The Nix community weathered it decently despite some people’s best efforts.
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There is drama, yes. But it is getting a lot better recently.
It's a thriving open source ecosystem. There are forks, there are differing opinions, and in-depth discussions.
But, universally, everyone agrees that nixpkgs, independent from any implementation, is the real value of nix.
That said, things change. OpenSSL 4, glibc 2.44, gcc 16, etc which then requires a bit of tweaking every now and then.