I know the author calls this out - but Docker and Nix _are_ different. For immutable distribution they solve the same problem. But they solve it in fundamental

I know the author calls this out - but Docker and Nix _are_ different. For immutable distribution they solve the same problem. But they solve it in fundamentally different ways. If you go back and read the last 20 years or so of LISA papers, it can be … humbling/frustrating. You can read two papers back to back, separated by 15 years, and they’ll be describing a new solution to the same exact problem that still hasn’t been properly solved. Dependency management has been horribly broken in our industry and we’ve never really managed to address it - until Nix. The Nix LISA paper [1] was a breath of fresh air, it really cut to the core of the problems with modern dependency management and addressed them head on. Docker declared bankruptcy on dependency management and just resorted to fs snapshots to guarantee bit perfect deployments. [1] https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf