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> outside of hobbyists and researchers

No data on this, but I'm pretty sure Nix is used mostly by for-profit companies trying to tame complexity on a limited budget.

It's not nice or pretty, but there's very little alternative unless you're ready to keep a whole team of developers just fixing Dockerfiles all day.

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I've used it in industry and it was nothing short of a disaster. Only one person could fix builds, despite many genuinely brilliant engineers putting in hours to learn it. More so, the time sink... Literally, what takes 29 minutes for a fresher to do in docker takes them two weeks with nothing to show for it in nix. Absolutely do not recommend it for industry whatsoever. Most people, except the one advocate for it, see it as a failed experiment.

If you work in a place where you have teams (multiple) of developers doing Docker crap, then nix is probably not for you.

To each his own, it targets an entirely different niche.

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