[Nix-dev] [***SPAM***] Re: Improving the Developer Experience in theNix Community

[Michael Raskin]

>None of which works too well in practice (though java is certainly farther along than other languages).
>
>> Same with pure python, pure ruby, pure perl, pure anything with a VM.
>
>python isn't compatible with itself because of 3.0. ruby is even more of a mess with
>rvm and per-user shadow trees that include multiple versions of everything to
>satisfy the pretense of "pure".

The question is about a tool to make an experiment and a decision
cheaply. If someone doesn't know python 3 from python 2, maybe it is the
argument for that person not to use nix-store --substitute-dependencies,
not for this option not to exist at all with dire warnings.