Reposting because it looks like federation failed.

I was just reading about it, it sounds like a pretty cool OS and package manager. Has anyone actually used it?

  • Alex
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    166 months ago

    nix is a programming language too

    • Atemu
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      -26 months ago

      Not quite: It’s an expression language.

      The ultimate output of Nix is one set of data, usually the description of a derivation (~= package). You cannot cause arbitrary side-effects with it like writing to files or making network requests with it.