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by Strum355 1402 days ago
Nix and Docker share the same purpose in this context: declaring the dependencies needed for this environment. This can include shell scripts, system-level dependencies etc. If anything I would say Nix would be better here (logical middleground in filesystem separation between having access only to whats in the container vs having to juggle system-level dependency versions for the entire system), while also having better version pinning.