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What’s the difference with having a plain Makefile and running shell nix-shell -p hello --run make?
You may mean something more ~functional, but: the main difference is having the dependencies explicitly recorded in the Makefile where others who check out a project can straightforwardly use it as long as they have Nix installed.
(I’m not sure you meant to copy the outer shell; if you did, I may be misinterpreting you…)
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On a related note: an official affordance here might be a nice UX win for developers. Maybe a nix-make or nix make that runs make targets with deps supplied–either imperatively or pulled from the shebang as in nix-shell,
Even if it’s just ~sugar.
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