Nix builds native software for your platform reproducibly. There is no OCI image, no Docker, just a way to reliably install software, which is a great foundatio

Nix builds native software for your platform reproducibly. There is no OCI image, no Docker, just a way to reliably install software, which is a great foundation for building per-project development environments. (Aside: you can build oci images using nix, but that’s probably what you would use for building deployable artifacts for production, not for development). I would not say it is comparable with a Dockerfile - a Dockerfile is closer to a shell script, with caching between each step. Credit to Dockerfile syntax for being very easy to grok, but it is inherently not reproducible. The perceived reliability of docker for development probably comes from the fact that you can share a prebuilt image, but rebuilding might not always work.