Jonathan Ringer

> Hm, wouldn't then `bultins.getFlake "github:nixos/nixpkgs"` still be a better shorthand? It takes the magic aliasing out of the game. Yea, I guess that's pretty similar to ``. I'm not...

> Both require --impure so I feel the actually has a slight advantage in that it is shorter Yea, but it's more likely to "stand the test of time". As...

Agreed, I'll add another paragraph about the importance of the process needing to be highly reproducible.

Well, there's been instances in the past where pining had to occur for certain packages to work. E.g gast and tensorflow. And so "always being the latest" was at odds...

I generally start my `pycharm` while inside a nix-shell with my virtualenv. It works really well because pycharm is already able to reason about virtualenvs

NixOS has a way to do this through `nixos-generate-config`. There's further discussion here: https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/70

bump again, I would like to receive notifications :)

@rail I'm curious as why nix was discontinued :)

that sounds reasonable, was just curious. Thanks! :)

> Just one silly question: why only `fetchFromGitHub` but not including `fetchFromGitLab` and others, besides the reason that it is very common? I did reference this https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/1ac472d4f0b82ec9f6781cd8c5a4f88fabef631e/rfcs/0171-fetch-from-github.md?plain=1#L104 I mention fetchFromGitHub...