“The learning curve of Nix is often intimidating and has always prevented me from convincing my colleagues to use Nix for day-to-day development. Flox successfully marries the simplicity of traditional package managers with the reproducible, hermetic foundation of Nix. The imperative interface for defining declarative state is brilliant -- all I ever wanted. Every developer can now take advantage of consistent shared development environments without having to first wrap their heads around Nix.”