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We want to make Nix better
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
rfcs
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Is NixOS fundamentally a more secure OS?
https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-09-10-nix-cas/ https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/62 https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/17 https://github.com/tweag/rfcs/blob/cas-rfc/rfcs/0062-content-addressed-paths.md https://github.com/wmertens/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0017-intensional-store.md https://discourse.nixos.org/t/content-addressed-nix-call-for-testers/12881
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We want to make Nix better
Actually the cache isn't that important, most binaries get rebuilt quite often due to their dependencies changing.
Although it is my hope that rfc 17 eventually makes it through: https://github.com/wmertens/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0017-inten...
What are some alternatives?
bob - Bob is a high-level build tool for multi-language projects.
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
nix-ld - Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS
nix-doc - An interactive Nix documentation tool providing a CLI for function search, a Nix plugin for docs in the REPL, and a ctags implementation for Nix script
rfcs - The Nix community RFCs
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
nixpacks - App source + Nix packages + Docker = Image
jsonnet - Jsonnet - The data templating language
nix-portable - Nix - Static, Permissionless, Installation-free, Pre-configured