I found out about Nix from a good friend of mine. First time I heard about was thinking why would someone put so much trouble for little beneift but now that I have been running it for a year, I can’t imagine my dev life without it. Here are 6 reasons why.
Python used to come with this annoying warm-up ritual: make a venv, install stuff, discover something conflicts, and then somehow it works on this machine but not the next one. uv basically removed that entire category of pain. It makes Python feel fast, predictable, and honestly more serious as a day-to-day dev tool.