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Not in this case. In this case we want a general computer user to perform an action to have a 'computer in a box' that they can break with no consequences with
by oneplane 3y ago
Not in this case. In this case we want a general computer user to perform an action to have a 'computer in a box' that they can break with no consequences with a very low barrier to entry. And we want that action to be easy to share.
- kreetx 3y agoWell, nix gives you that too, plus determinism.
- oneplane 3y agoNix also gives you (not me, just in case you are going to assume that) a headache, which is why it's not getting the adoption that everything else does get. Nix is the betamax of state managers.
- kreetx 3y agoDocker gives you the headache of not actually giving you reproducibility. If you haven't been bitten by it then I don't think you have tried. For popularity, I wouldn't actually mind if nix weren't all that popular, but it may just have the largest number of packages available for install for any package manager.
- oneplane 3y agoI haven't heard of anything getting a Docker-related headache because it delegates reproducibility to whatever tools you pick. We haven't been bitten by it, and you might think I have not tried, but you'd be wrong and making some odd assumptions. Perhaps I can assume that you have only used nix personally or at a small company?
- kreetx 3y agoIf you already knew docker doesn't give reproducibility you should have just said so from the get go. ;)
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