I’m new to nix, but I really went full beans on it: installed NixOS on my daily and I’m using nix-shell for some projects and yesterday I learned how nix docker images work.
I was actively avoiding flakes because I try never to use unstable/experimental features until they are stabilised so I can rely on them.
Thing is, they seem to be ubiquitous. Their reason to exist makes sense to me and I think I should learn how to use them to fully take advantage of the ecosystem.
My question: is it fairly safe to assume nix flakes won’t suddenly break on me? is there any known roadmap to flakes stabilisation?
I’ll let you compare the nix 2.4 manual page (https://web.archive.org/web/20211201073051/https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-flake.html) with the current one (https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/new-cli/nix3-flake.html).
Thanks for the links!