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>>elikog+(OP)
The main reason for the persistence of Nix despite its warts and general mess is just "first-mover advantage": it was the first, therefore it has more libraries/packages/development of the ecosystem than the alternatives.

Stop being lazy, go back to engineering first principles and it makes little sense to stay with Nix. Guix or any rewrite as a library in a well-developed language* makes more sense.

*For example, why are Haskellians using Nix so much instead of integrating its concepts into their own tooling?

>>aredox+q8
I think the main reason actually is that nix supports more than just Linux - notably macOS.

>>hamand+pk
The quality of Nix packages for Darwin is quite bad compared to Linux though, I don't think there's a core maintainer that runs Nix on Darwin.

>>asmor+Vf1
By quality do you mean quantity? Sure some packages are missing on Darwin, but those that aren't don't seem "worse" in any way.