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What's a good source, for someone who has never used nix, to read about its conceptual model and how it is different from contemporary dependency managers?
by potamic 4y ago
What's a good source, for someone who has never used nix, to read about its conceptual model and how it is different from contemporary dependency managers?
- tazjin 4y agoThere really isn't one that I know of. There's the original thesis[0], but it's from a different time and it focuses only on the package management (~ for a distribution) aspect. Everything else is mostly written to teach people how to use Nix, and the more recent the thing is the more it will focus on surface-level features of the C++ implementation of Nix. [0]: https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf
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- rkrzr 4y agoWe wrote a blog post on how Nix helps us solve some of the problems that we encountered with other package managers like e.g. apt and pip. https://www.channable.com/tech/nix-is-the-ultimate-devops-toolkit https://www.channable.com/tech/nix-is-the-ultimate-devops-to... (It doesn't go very much in depth on the conceptual model, but touches on the the main ideas)