> Which widely used, existing software tools is it analogous to? It's kinda like Docker, but without the images/containers. Docker solves two problems: distri

> Which widely used, existing software tools is it analogous to? It's kinda like Docker, but without the images/containers. Docker solves two problems: distributing the same program everywhere, and running those programs using containers. Nix solves the former problem. But, since it doesn't use containers, you can run the Nix packages without needing to worry about mounting into VMs or containers.