alt Hacker NewsThere is drama, yes. But it is getting a lot better recently.
It's a thriving open source ecosystem. There are forks, there are differing opinions, and in-depth discussions.
But, universally, everyone agrees that nixpkgs, independent from any implementation, is the real value of nix.
That said, things change. OpenSSL 4, glibc 2.44, gcc 16, etc which then requires a bit of tweaking every now and then.
Have flakes stabilized? I thought those were one of the points of contention, while also being the kind of thing that I was the most interested in as a way of hopefully managing a small fleet of VMs. I had trouble getting the idea to stick because I really believed in the single-config ideal reality, but couldn't bend my config far enough in.