Some time ago I asked a question on what arguments do you use to increase nix adoption.
These days I’m curious about metaphor and storytelling.
Nix: dependencies without the hell.
Nix: easy IaC
Here’s a short pitch I used recently:
title: 'How and why I use Nix’
I develop a project, using
How to ensure that you can easily use, or continue development on, the project?
Or myself, six months from now when I’ve forgotten how it works?
If I install the version of package X needed for your project,
it will overwrite the version of package X I need for my project!
Use Nix to package software or a development environment.
Use Docker if you really need the container features, e.g.
Can also use Nix to build Docker containers.
Technically an experimental feature, but…
I recommend the installer and quick start guide from zero-to-nix.com.
More documentation (and another installer) available at nixos.org.
Not Nix-specific, but very useful.
Automatically load the right environment when you CD to a directory.
Available from direnv.net
An operating system based on Nix.
Available at nixos.org.
There are hyphenated and unhyphenated versions of many commands
The unhyphenated versions are for working directly with flakes
The hyphenated versions are for everything else
E.g., nix-shell and nix shell are two different commands
Recently i’ve change my tac to, to ‘nix isn’t for you’ . The reverse psychology works. (every time).
However, nix is very close to tipping point… Tipping point (sociology) - Wikipedia
When Nix reaches this point (or Guix) then my work here is done, and i can return to the year 2038…
Loving those meme’s…
get them posted to Reddit immediately…
Make more…more meme’s…meme’s everywhere!
Don’t worry, it’s just JSON on Steroids with a Superpower [of the string context]!
This depends a bit on the audience, but for Ruby, JS and Python developers at my company:
Would you use a project without lock files?
No
Then why aren’t you locking the Ruby version and the native libraries that your application depends on? Use Nix to be able to.
I did a Nix workshop on this with some slides: Nix Workshop
Which of course includes:
Another pitch was getting a development environment up and running for the biggest legacy application at my company. It is famously painful to do so.
Write a mkShell (using devenv in my case) and show how a single command can levitate multiple pages of setup documentation. This got some people really impressed!
In my more naïve days, this once came out of my mouth: “Puppet is just a poor man’s NixOS”. I’ve come back to reflect on that, though, it did get some people to try it out. 
Or this one: “It’s like magic, except the magic can be explained, unlike other magic…”
some great slides there, really good!
Do you have a recording of your talk? Can you make one? And upload it?
Thanks a lot 
I’m not that comfortable making one without audience, but when I do another Nix talk at my company I’ll make sure to record it. 
