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

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Is Nick's a General Purpose Programming Language?

A lot of this is targeted at alleviating some of the pain that we've had with portability of a binary essentially, right? It's like, I've got this program and I want to run it over here. Well, what is that binary essentially linked against? What does it need to run? And Nick says, all right, your, your Nick's package describes everything that it needs in the, you know, full tree so that it always knows how to get there. So when you actually glue those two things together, you get kind of like the perfect thing. But on the other hand, when you do like, let's say local development, I think containers are a

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