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by whacked_new 924 days ago
The missing link for me is nix-copy-closure, which I learned about from a post by mitchellh: https://mitchellh.com/writing/nix-with-dockerfiles

conceptually a game changer for me. In practice it's far from a silver bullet (because every language prefers its own package management so you still have to manage those), but when it works it's quite magical.