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#73 Nix - Functional Programming for Software Packaging with Domen Kožar

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What Is Nix?

In Nix, every dependency needs to be explicit and part of Nix. And so you have to take a binary and make it understand the Nix system because it can't just go find libc in the usual place or something. So there's quite a few methods out there to run these kind of things. But in general, you don't want that because then you're back to the old days. Right? You really want to have it from the ground up, like everything understanding the world of NIX. I think Nix takes it really far. And I think that there is going to be more and more in the future as people adopt Nix.

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