@cwebber @bugaevc@mastodon.technology

So @johnburnham mentioned the other day how he recovered a broken NixOS system even after nix-collect-garbage the other day.

Not sure about the details, but would love to read about it, since I stopped using Nix during recent breaking changes spree (due to lack of time to keep up and poor migraiton guides).

I should really motivate myself to get back to it...

For me the most important thing, practically speaking, is that (breaking changes aside), Nix turns releases from an event to a workflow item.

And of course, theoretically, Nix is important because it just captures the notion of "what is a piece of a software" correctly for the first time in the history of the field.