As father always used to quip, “possession is nine tenths of the law”.

Good luck with your endeavours, Compound /s

I came here just for this

Weird, since it’s not really relevant.

It is, though? Just swap "standards" with "programs"

The point behind the XKCD is that competing standards cause interoperability problems. I would argue, as does the original post, that Nix solves interoperability problems rather than creating them—it is a tool that helps you get stuff done, not a standard that purports to tell other people how they need to do things so you can get stuff done. But I’m not sure whom I’d be arguing this with, since a link to an XKCD does not constitute an argument to begin with.

Does it? I don't think having everyone learn a functional language to write code the manage their dependencies is interoperable with everyone...

That doesn't mean it's bad, it just means that it's not going to universally cover everyone's use cases.