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had the same experience on their matrix in like 2017 so I'm not surprised, but the VC piece is new. ty for the context, I don't have a flakes opinion but good to know about the creator
my point about the bean counters is still relevant. there is nothing in the nix ecosystem that provides a complementary good to weapons manufacturing, so eventually whatever nerd at anduril who's obsessed with nix will be cowed by capital. this isn't an AWS/RHEL situation
It really does feel like any nix nerd who works at these companies are just obsessed with the project. The pattern is that they all believe that nix is going to revolutionize everything and so whatever horror they help with is actually a net positive. It'll all go away once those people leave so thats why they buy into crapware like flakes.
The company is called Determinate Systems and they've made it not so subtle that they're trying to rugpull people onto their nix implementation with flakes to boost their product. Their nix stuff is even proprietary, like legit nonfee.
Flakes were actually a relatively new thing surprisingly. They got shipped as part of a huge nix "overhaul" that subsequently was one of the worst releases in the projects history.
Theres so much drama in a package manager you wouldn't believe it.