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Nix package manager: correctly resolves dependency hell for your entire OS.

Nix governance: still hasn't resolved dependency hell for humans apparently.

but the dependency hell for human is inherently political

For a certain definition of "correctly" (namely: it doesn't, it just does what containers do and ships unique versions for every package).

Containers don't solve dependency hell. They just give you a standard way to ship your bespoke bash scripts.

If you like writing bash scripts then go for it. (Personally I'd rather be doing literally anything else, like, I don't know, shoveling manure.)

that's what they said

Containers do solve dependency hell by isolation. It's like venv/uv in Python that you switch between different environment with different sets of dependency. Or speaking essentially, you lifted yourself away from having dependencies shenanigans since you have virtualizations of it

> Containers do solve dependency hell by isolation.

Only if they isolate each atomic package individually. Which is exactly what Nix is and what Docker isn't.

This is not what nix does unless a user configures it poorly. Nix will ship a single, dynamically linked package/version combo for all package that depends on it. Containers ship one for each package that depends on it.

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