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by KingMachiavelli 39 days ago
Actually, quite an honest and in-depth review with many genuine good points about the state of Nix. If you genuinely need sub 1GB image sizes, you would have to reimplement many of the Nixpkgs conventions like glibc/systemd.

I’d still probably just implement this in Nix/Nixpkgs so I could leverage the rest of the ecosystem but that’s not trivial at all.

I wouldn’t even say Nix as a language is better than Starlark. The author is certainly well informed in the choices made.