[nbp]

My thinking is that this is long overdue!

I am working on a very large project where multiple solutions have been invented to solve problem which are all handled by Nix:

- Bake in the repository the clone of the dependencies.

- Compile the tool chain to create reproducible builds.

- Create "artifact" builds, to avoid large recompilation times for many developers.

- Use various tools to cache and distribute builds.

- Use a bleeding-edge version of some dependencies.

- Use Node, Java (Android), C++, Rust, …

If only Nix were to run natively on Windows, this would check all the boxes.

[bpye]

There was some work being done to make Nix work on Windows [0] - but it might have fizzled out. I too would really love Nix to work on Windows. I already use it on both macOS and Linux and it’s great.

[0] - https://github.com/nix-windows/nix