What the post misses is that lots of packages are not available on Nix, but everything is available on Docker automatically.
If what you need is available, however, then it can be so much better.
If what you need is available, however, then it can be so much better.
Where Debian/PIP/NPM/Cargo already do work.
Nix as an instruction set, no, you still have to declare what you want, same as a dockerfile.
it's just... Docker will do what a shell script will.
Nix is like hoping someone's done the upstream finagling to get your particular dependencies happy.