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Into the Nix ecosystem (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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What Was the Purpose of Nix?

Nix was a research project, exact sponsor by grants. The purpose was to see if functional programming paradimes can be applied to solve packaging problems. When did you find it? And what got you excited? That's an excellent question. There i was doing a lot of pitonrn development in two thousand and 12,. And iw pettycrly, i was working in the community called plon c m s - not that well known as it was before.

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