What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about Nix
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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Their wordsMaybe Nix is like Rust: Amazing if you don't have to look at the code! I'm open to the idea that Omarchy Cinque could switch packaging system if I never have to look at nixlang, there are no ergonomic regressions, and we have full repo sovereignty.