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We wrote the Determinate Nix Installer with hopes that the greater project will adopt it[1]. Nix itself is fantastic. Improving the upstream Nix installer has been described as "unreasonably expensive and pointless"[2]. Hopefully it is adopted soon!

1. https://determinate.systems/posts/determinate-nix-installer

2. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-survival-mode-macos-upgrad...

It's macOS at fault here.

Nix is a very bazaar language culture.

This! At any given time, a lot of Nix goodies are being prototyped outside of the Nix and Nixpkgs codebases. So it is with even the installer for Nix itself. But this is really mainly a cultural thing.