me, long-time nvm h8er: "ugh I have to switch node versions so often now maybe I'll give nvm the ol' college try one more time"
nvm:
screenreader unfriendly probably
@zkat you have ended up on my timeline. i will now show you nix:
ckie@cookiemonster ~ -> nix-shell -p nodejs-16_x
[nix-shell:~]$ node -v
v16.15.0
[nix-shell:~]$
exit
ckie@cookiemonster ~ -> nix-shell -p nodejs-12_x
these 3 paths will be fetched (20.11 MiB download, 95.55 MiB unpacked):
/nix/store/4xsdry5dxx7dz2m6byg7gsdapq6j2h6k-icu4c-68.2
/nix/store/aakd4293fm9pl61kgr01l4prp5j8p6vf-nodejs-12.22.12
/nix/store/l2j4qrk6bnw2gvsmpnn1d438h6fcir2y-icu4c-68.2-dev
copying path '/nix/store/4xsdry5dxx7dz2m6byg7gsdapq6j2h6k-icu4c-68.2' from 'https://cache.nixos.org'...
copying path '/nix/store/l2j4qrk6bnw2gvsmpnn1d438h6fcir2y-icu4c-68.2-dev' from 'https://cache.nixos.org'...
copying path '/nix/store/aakd4293fm9pl61kgr01l4prp5j8p6vf-nodejs-12.22.12' from 'https://cache.nixos.org'...
[nix-shell:~]$ node -v
v12.22.12
[nix-shell:~]$
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@ckie yeah uh. I’m not going to set up nix on windows sorry. Or probably any os.
screenreader unfriendly probably
@zkat lol the nix evangelists have logged on
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@darius I mean all the more power to them. They’re just unhelpful replies.
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@zkat @darius
am tired and have been debugging a stupid thing for hours but tldr i'm not an evangelist, @joepie91 explains this well in https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/108443089028109028
@ckie I suppose we disagree on what evangelism is. "my fundamentally different operating system paradigm solves your problem elegantly and I will tell you about it even though you didn't ask for a solution" is very much tech evangelist behavior, to me.
@darius @ckie I think it depends a lot on context and presentation. In this case though, I'd definitely say that "you have ended up on my timeline. i will now show you nix" is a needlessly smug way to go about it. The whole thing would read very different if it were introduced as "maybe Nix would be an option? as it works out-of-the-box there" instead, for example.
(With the understanding that you'd only need Nix here and not NixOS)
