> Determinism Except not. I don't think "determinism" was ever an explicit goal of Nix. The sales pitch on their site is "learn how to make reproducible, decla

> Determinism Except not. I don't think "determinism" was ever an explicit goal of Nix. The sales pitch on their site is "learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems". Nix takes very much a worse-is-better Unix approach. It aims to unify the mess of package management of Unix distributions and language runtimes in a reliable and easy-to-use way, but it doesn't aim to solve the computing world's problems in some quixotic quest for "purity".