NSIS
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
May 11, 2026first mention
May 12, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“NDIS is extremely elegant and runs on just about every windows version.”
“the performance and compression advantages of NSIS were so great that it was a clear choice”
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“NSIS is awesome and my team is still using it”
“It was quite the fun experience and I'm pleasantly surprised that NSIS is supported to this day”
switched from InstallShieldon “Nullsoft, 1997-2004 AOL kills off the last maverick …”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“the original NSIS code I wrote”
Threads where it came up
Data: nsis.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 4
“NDIS is extremely elegant and runs on just about every windows version.”
“the performance and compression advantages of NSIS were so great that it was a clear choice”
“NSIS is awesome and my team is still using it”
“It was quite the fun experience and I'm pleasantly surprised that NSIS is supported to this day”