> it just needs to be manually enabled under 'experimental-features'
Same with flakes. My impression is that Nix is either on the cusp of a major paradigm and usability change, or the status quo will be forever in a state of having "wrong defaults."
Same with flakes. My impression is that Nix is either on the cusp of a major paradigm and usability change, or the status quo will be forever in a state of having "wrong defaults."
I think probably both. The Nix community is host to very diverse and partially overlapping experimentation, and features like rollbacks and version pinning make the bleeding edge feel relatively safe, further fostering such experimentation.
The new Nix CLI will be huge for new users and for adoption once it's finalized. But there will probably always be a bunch of Nix users doing weird, cool shit that everyone kinda wishes was 'here already' for mainstream use.
I think mostly now a few people just need to step up to overhaul the docs.
I don't want to rush the finalization of flakes or the new CLI, though, eager as I am to see them come out from behind the 'experimental' flag. There's clearly still a lot of work, including bugfixes, going into the flakes implementation.