After 20 years are developers now ready for Nix?

The revolutionary declarative software ecosystem was ahead of its time, say advocates

John Leonard
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After 20 years are developers ready for Nix?
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After 20 years are developers ready for Nix?

Nix and NixOS promise application portability, reliability and reproducibility, but can developers be persuaded to make the switch?

Nix is a longstanding open source project, with all that typically implies. On the plus side, it has a passionate and dedicated community of engineers heads down in code and working to tackle a har...

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