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jjmarryesterday at 5:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

Nix and Guix.

Good luck convincing people to switch!


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abacateyesterday at 5:50 PM

Trying to convince people usually makes any resistance worse.

Using it, solving problems with it, and building a real community around it tend to make a much greater impact in the long run.

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zbentleyyesterday at 6:01 PM

But they’re roughly the same paradigm as docker, right? My understanding of the Nix approach is that it’s still reproducing most of a user land/filesystem in a captive/separate/sandbox environment. Like, docker is using namespaces for more stuff, Nix has a heavier emphasis on reproducibility/determinism, but … they’re both still throwing in the towel on deploying directly on the underlying OS’s userland (unless you go all the way to nixOS) and shipping what amounts to a filesystem in a box, no?

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