It's massively closer than any other solution in this regard (nods to other Nix-inspired distros like Guix, Lix, etc.) Honestly, I believe every software devel

It's massively closer than any other solution in this regard (nods to other Nix-inspired distros like Guix, Lix, etc.) Honestly, I believe every software developer owes it to themselves to read the original Nix paper. It's quite digestible and lays out a lot of what it brings to the table. I came away from it wondering why it took so long to realize it... which is a property I've found true of every new important discovery. https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf If you want, you can even ask an LLM to sum up its main points for you. Or to sell it to you. =) https://chatgpt.com/share/67ae1a08-7354-8004-8200-e956cb6b59db https://chatgpt.com/share/67ae1a08-7354-8004-8200-e956cb6b59... I would like to say one thing about using Docker to "solve" this problem though: Once you think of builds in terms of functions, you realize that a Docker image is basically just the cached artifacts of a build that "just so happened" to work correctly. Consider a function that only occasionally produces a correct value: A Docker image is one of those values.