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by clhodapp 1210 days ago
I'll take a stab and say that I believe that nix's actual power is to efficiently materialize an exact tree of files (raw or generated) on any machine. By "exact", I mean in a fully reproducible way.

That capability turns out to be really powerful because you can materialize a program, a whole Unix tree, or even a script that converges the current host to a desired state.