From e70ae77dee468d2060c5e6c5adc3a3c3225fca6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Youwen Wu Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 00:03:40 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] clarify readme --- README.md | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6c82259..cf145db 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,9 @@ # Nix development environments, for various languages -Those of us on NixOS never install language toolkits system-wide, unlike other distros. +Those of us on NixOS never install language toolkits system-wide, unlike other distros. This means that when we +work on projects which expect you to bring your own language tools, we don't have things like `node`, `npm`, `cargo`, etc. +readily available in the shell. + Regrettably, many projects are not taking advantage of Nix for reproducible development environments. You should make a big fuss about this in every open source project you are a part of and constantly evangelize about Nix. Until Nix is universally adopted, this repository serves as a collection of flakes which provides compilers,