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Mostly all the declarative package management. It sounds like there's no way to ever have a missing dependency ever again, but in reality, 99% of the time the thing you're trying to run isn't in Nixpkgs and doesn't have a shell.nix.
That's why you have to learn how to make derivations!
i tried, i really tried but it just didnt work.