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Nix community has none of the buzzword churn of the docker community. Our ideas are old as hell, and proudly so.
by Ericson2314 7y ago
Nix community has none of the buzzword churn of the docker community. Our ideas are old as hell, and proudly so.
- t0astbread 7y agoDocker in and of itself is quite reasonable. You only start seeing buzzwords when you go into DevOps.
- danieldk 7y agoIndeed. You can still read Eelco Dolstra's thesis [1] from 2006 and the general principles still apply. Some details have changed (e.g. the builder.sh scripts have mostly been abstracted away), but for understanding the Nix store, the Nix language, etc. it's still completely relevant. [1] Eelco is the creator of Nix: https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf https://nixos.org/~eelco/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf