I recently bought a Macbook because more and more people are asking me how touse Nix in certain situations under MacOS.In this article, we walk through installing Nix on MacOS and see how pleasantthe experience is these days.After that, we show how to go declarative on MacOS with nix-darwin to enablecompilation for Linux and Intel Macs, as well as some other nice features.
I feel like the only one, but it feels like nix around the introduction of flakes on Mac has a large showdown, particularly around fetching inputs. Especially nixpkg. It has to think for many minutes before it proceeds.
Anyone experiencing similar issues?