Nix-Pilled Tech Founders

I had lunch with @dhh yesterday and he made very compelling arguments for Samsung phones and Beelink PCs. I did my best to Nix pill him lol. In any case I think we're both excited to make Ghostty work really great with Omarchy and identified some key improvements to do that 🥰 Between you and @tobi, I'm clearly getting bullied into having a closer look at Nix 😁. I will say that the @shopify dev setup that's based on Nix was very compelling! you would end up where everyone else ends up with nix: you will absolutely hate it, except that you cannot stop using it anymore, because its mere existence makes everything else seem wrong

A screenshot of a three-post social media thread shows Mitchell Hashimoto discussing persuading DHH to try Nix, DHH admitting that he is being pushed toward Nix, and Tobi Lutke joking that Nix makes everything else feel wrong once you start using it. The joke is about the addictive appeal and steep learning curve of Nix, a functional package manager and operating-system ecosystem, especially among developers. It is shared as a reaction to enthusiastic tech evangelism or the feeling of being reluctantly converted to a developer tool.

• @gentoomemes / 17775 2025-07-02