Every project have to have some 3rd party dependencies, even if you are masochist and you are not using 3rd party packages/libraries, you are using compilers and tooling for the language you are developing in. If you wrote your own language, then this article is not for you. For everyone else, I want to show you why Nix is the best package manager for you projects and possible for your operating system....
Running Nixos on steamdeck come up as surprising necessity when I went for month long work retreat to Thailand. My workflow is composed of great and super lightweight Lenovo X1 Nano and remote workstation sitting in my office. Neovim running in ssh session with some port forwarding is all I need for my development, more about it some other post. But when I settled to the airbnb and fired up my laptop to do some work I was greeted by around 200ms ping to the office, not really acceptable for any serious work since every keystoke was like I was typing in slow motion....