It seems counterintuitive that Nix -- a culture which values reproducibility of software builds much higher than packager and maintainer convenience -- is also the distribution with the highest number of maintained packages, and, of those, the most up to date ones.
But this echoes my experience with testing culture. If you set the bar high enough and the goal is worthy (e.g. "100% unit test coverage is necessary but not sufficient"), motivated people will come out of the woodwork.
#nix #nixos
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