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Nix: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Nix: An Idea Whose Time Has Come.
In which I shill you Nix, a purely functional package manager.

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dimitarvp

dimitarvp

For everyone who learns a new language as they are munching on a cookie and drinking coffee every random day I have no doubt Nix is great. Tried it, hated the language, left in disgust. :person_shrugging:

It’s also hugely ironic they are proponents of reproducible builds and last I checked a few months ago they couldn’t even make their own stuff be reproducible… :003:

dimitarvp

dimitarvp

Sure. I like LISP anyway. :slight_smile:

How is the reproducible build story?

dimitarvp

dimitarvp

Maybe, but I’ve seen a claim on HN that Nix itself isn’t reproducibly built.

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