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Comment by lab14 | Hacker News Reader

I’m a Staff Software Engineer in a Fortune 500. I’ve delivered a multitude of complex projects to production. Trying to setup Nix made me feel dumb and incompetent.

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So you found a concept that didn’t come naturally to you. If you are as successful at this field as you want us to believe, you would probably have learned by now that all technologies click differently for different people depending on the context they bring in when learning it.

I can’t imagine taking myself so seriously that I would write a comment like this. This is an opportunity for self reflection more than a lesson worth sharing about Nix.

For me it was documentation: I don't mind having to look things up with a new system but there does need to be a clear place to look the current things up. Instead I had to resort to Google which pointed to out of date solutions and package-names. Reducing everything to 'pin the tail on the donkey' for me and impeding me getting the system I want.

And I love the idea behind it and the programs only available within X directory encapsulation but for me the docs just weren't clear enough when I tried.

I should try again. :-/

This sort of attitude is what keeps Nix from reaching a wider audience.

What’s your title and your employer’s market cap? I need to know how seriously I should consider your opinion..

Yes, Nix is incredibly complicated and needs to improve to see more adoption.

I was just commenting on the weird flex of the OP.

Corporate success and Computer science success do not go hand in hand always

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