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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
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. 
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… 
dimitarvp
Sure. I like LISP anyway. 
How is the reproducible build story?
dimitarvp
Maybe, but I’ve seen a claim on HN that Nix itself isn’t reproducibly built.
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