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Flakes aren't real and cannot hurt you: a guide to using Nix flakes the non-flake way (jade.fyi)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It must be nice to have never productionized a prototype; meanwhile, in the land of startups, putting experiments into production is standard operating procedure, despite being a bad idea.

The more important part is that flakes are unstable. The concept is solid and clearly works at scale, but the precise API available to users is not yet finalized or versioned.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It must be nice to have never productionized a prototype; meanwhile, in the land of startups, putting experiments into production is standard operating procedure, despite being a bad idea.

You're making assumptions. I worked in startups that did took great care not to beta software or libs. We were in production and changing stuff all the time - multiple times a day, but that was one of the rules. When you work with time-sensitive, always on environments with world-wide customers, bringing down production for multiple hours could mean the end your company in those early stages.
Maybe I was extra-ordinarily lucky with the startups I was in.

Just because other startups do it, doesn't mean that it has to be done.