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What made the release exciting for you?
I just roll along on NixOS-unstable, so for me changes just trickle in over time.
For nix-darwin specifically, the cleaned up build process, and SDK packaging is nice. It hasn't eliminated all the issues, but a lot of those are less of a fault of Nix, and more an issue with macOS design. Hoping they can be addressed somehow, but for now, the issues with workarounds are tracked.
And just in general, Python has kind of been a pain in the ass to understand, so any improvement is exciting, as i'm still learning how things work here.
A bunch of packages I want got officially merged or updated during this release cycle too, and as much as I appreciate thirdparty flakes, I don't want to rely on them too much