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MixRank has been using nix in production for over 3 years now. We're just using the nix package manager on Ubuntu and MacOS, not nixos. Easily one of the best t
by smilliken 8y ago
MixRank has been using nix in production for over 3 years now. We're just using the nix package manager on Ubuntu and MacOS, not nixos. Easily one of the best technical decisions I've made.
Here's a comment I left on it's benefits: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10714102 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10714102
- qwerty456127 8y agoWhat's the benefit of using Ubuntu instead of NixOS if you choose nix package manager instead of apt-get?
- akavel 8y agoWhat do you mean by: "The fork is then squashed as a git subtree into our main repo"? I don't grasp what actually happens there, between the two repos (the nixpkgs fork repo vs. your main repo)?