Nix

• Nix & NixOS | Declarative builds and deployments
  • Nix is weird. It's a lot of things. It's
    • a Functional Programming Language - Nix/Lang
      • this is a DSL specifically oriented towards solving the problem of execution context reproducibility in the domain of Package/Management
    • a Package Manager - Nix/Package/Registry
      • nixpkgs is a package manager that abstracts away other package managers. This means th at npm, pypi, system packages, everything can be represented in it.
      • Packages are packaged up, and in the case of Nix/home-manager
    • an Operating System - Nix/OS
      • while it's not unrelated to linux, NixOS is very different than typical Linux/Distros; it's a whole operating system designed around the idea that nixpkgs and Nix/Lang can determine the entire configuration of your operating system.