# Determinate Nix 3.0

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/determinate-nix-3-0/61202
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**Created:** [March 5, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/determinate-nix-3-0/61202 "2025-03-05T22:04:34Z")
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### Author: ![piegames](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/piegames/32/5324_2.png) [@piegames](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/piegames)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2025, 12:00pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/determinate-nix-3-0/61202/110 "2025-03-08T12:00:24Z")

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> [@crertel](#):
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> If y’all spent a tenth as much effort on clearing and updating Nix PRs as y’all do complaining about Eelco and DetSys there is no telling how far along we’d be.

I don’t think people appreciate how huge the Nix code base is and much fucking work it is to get anything done. I started working on Lix roughly half a year ago and was only able to quickly become productive in it thanks to pennae being an awesome mentor. On average, I’ve been working roughly 10h/week on the code base since, and yet I’ve barely made a dent on the projects I set out to work on. At the current pace, some of them will still take _years_. Most non-trivial changes send you on a goose chase of side quests, other bugs to fix first, and debugging spurious segfaults at the other end of the code base.

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