> when the total Nix lines of code > 10k for a project then have fun!
I have the suspicion that you’re talking about auto-generated Nix code. For comparison, lock files for language-specific package managers can easily exceed 10k lines. But I have yet to see any hand-written Nix build description for a single software project reach nearly as much LOC.
I just checked and without giving too much info I’ll round, but there’s 20 repos with 10K commits of pure Nix repos, 3k issues across them, and 30k references to the word nix lol. Random check and none of the files are generated in these repos - it’s all reasoned code judging from commits. These are then used across all projects which includes additional nix stuff.
Going for the entire org and these numbers increase drastically but could include auto generated nix code.
Assuming your team consolidates Nix code in a few repos, that sounds fairly normal. In contrast, my team maintains a bunch of RPM builds and it's messier business than Nix. More boilerplate, breakage, and manual work.
I have the suspicion that you’re talking about auto-generated Nix code. For comparison, lock files for language-specific package managers can easily exceed 10k lines. But I have yet to see any hand-written Nix build description for a single software project reach nearly as much LOC.