I migrated to Alpine for my laptop this year after an extended attempt of NixOS. For development, I’ve found I’m more productive in that I don’t go down the rabbit hole of finding the “Nix way” of using a language/tool. The speed of apk is refreshing for my older machine, and APKBUILDs are intuitive after my past experience with Arch PKGBUILD.

Drew DeVault has a decent write up on Alpine that’s worth a read. https://drewdevault.com/2021/05/06/Praise-for-Alpine-Linux.h...