Where did you get stuck in the Nix ecosystem? Tell me your story

[doronbehar]

The main motive I hear in the stories here - regarding the lack of decision making regarding significant changes, reminds me of another thread and discussion I initiated in the past, that may be of interest:

How many people are paid to work on Nix/Nixpkgs?

I constantly find myself comparing NixOS and Guix. I know Guix is backed by the FSF and I can’t help but feeling that Guix’ leadership is stronger, and that they are making more progress in less time. Hence I wonder: How many people work on Nix/NixOS directly, and are get paid for it? Our donate page mentions some companies which have funded development in the past, but now they don’t? I read Guix’ blog, and it feels they are more motivated into performing big / fundamental changes such as the…