Well said. I’m glad people are challenging my json characterization. I deserve the flack but perhaps it was just a sensationalist headline to get some discussion going. It worked. ;)

Thanks for the valuable anecdotal evidence. You do speak the truth. I’ve settled on the fact that the community will never agree to adopt flakes.

Personally, I have an opinionated stack that is, at this point, self documenting. I maintain a strict style where I add assertions to most things that nix won’t be able to prove conclusively with just a build and cheaper checks that I run before actually building any real derivations. As I said elsewhere, Nix feels like the revolutionary precursor to a sea change in dependency management. But it’s just that: an imperfect technology with enough great ideas for me to adopt it wholesale and use fixing and finding ways around the warts as a way to give back to this open source community.