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by pluto_modadic 818 days ago
Nix as package management, yes - you're waiting on someone else to make upstream work.

Where Debian/PIP/NPM/Cargo already do work.

Nix as an instruction set, no, you still have to declare what you want, same as a dockerfile.

it's just... Docker will do what a shell script will.

Nix is like hoping someone's done the upstream finagling to get your particular dependencies happy.