the world hasn’t figured out yet that you can literally just fix everything with a Nix overlay

There are many things that are uncertain in our industry right now, but one thing I am certain about, and have been for almost 13 years, is that Nix is a terrible programming language. I remember when I first learned it, it felt like pushing shit uphill. The learning cliff is ferocious, and it took me a couple of years to master it because there was no AI back then, but I stuck with it. There's some magic here, and in this post, I'm going to show you why Nix should be your primary choice for all your software projects.First, I'm going to open with this: many pieces of technology are in our heads as really hard to learn, complex, and maybe that's stopped you from picking one up, but I want to encourage you to falsify those thoughts any time you start thinking along those lines. Now that we have AI, things that used to be advanced power tools, hard to use or designed for masters, are now accessible to everyone. You can just prompt for outcomes.first, some introductory knowledgeThe term…