A treatise on Nix

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  • nickel

    Better configuration for less

  • Nix (the package manager) doesn't actually need nix (the language) to work. For example, guix uses lisp but reuses the nix-daemon to do the actual builds. There's some exploration in https://github.com/tweag/nickel which may replace the current nix-lang in the future.

  • lorri

    Discontinued Your project's nix-env

  • Yes, you can "hold on", it's called gcroots. There's lorri which you can also use to defer the tediousness of managing the gcroots to a daemon.

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  • nix

    Nix, the purely functional package manager

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