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Nix Derivation Madness

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184 points birdculture | 3 comments | 31 Oct 25 14:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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amelius ◴[31 Oct 25 17:52 UTC] No.45774752[source]▶
> The road to Nix enlightenment is no joke and full of dragons.

Nix was a great research project. Now is the time to rewrite it from the ground up.

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jbstack ◴[31 Oct 25 18:09 UTC] No.45774922[source]▶
Well, there's Guix as an alternative if you want a similar concept but different implementation philosophy. For me the major disadvantage of Guix is lack of package availability compared to Nix.
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1. zamalek ◴[31 Oct 25 22:03 UTC] No.45777192[source]▶
AFAIK Guix uses parts of Nix as a backend.
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2. c0balt ◴[01 Nov 25 02:04 UTC] No.45778686[source]▶
Guix uses the sandboxing logic iirc
3. tkz1312 ◴[01 Nov 25 11:43 UTC] No.45780909[source]▶
Guix uses a fork of the nix daemon