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Absolutely. Being able to have a single `nix build` line that gets all the way from source to your final asset (iso, ova, container image, whatever) with everything being aggressively cached all the way along is a game changer. I think it's worth the activation energy for a lot more organizations than realize it.

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Imo, the “activation energy” is a lot lower than it appears too. The determinate systems nix installer solves a lot of the local development issues and it’s fairly easy, as a first pass, to write a simple derivation that just copies your current build process and uses nix for dependencies.

Sounds like a business that surfaces the power of Nix with a gentle learning curve as a simpler, cleaner CI tool could have some success. Every time I see Nix come up, it’s described as very powerful but difficult to learn to use.

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