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Re:What Is Nix? by matthewbauer on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:07PM (#23253501)
The biggest issue IIRC is that Bash doesn't play well with Windows. Things like paths are handled different enough to cause lots of breakage. We could rewrite all of the Bash in Perl or Python, which has better cross-platform support, but that's a lot of work.

That said, there have been attempts to get native Windows support:

https://github.com/volth/nix-windows/commits/windows

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Re:What Is Nix? by _hl_ on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:04AM (#23255606)
Why rely on bash? Windows has Powershell and symlinks, what else is needed to create a nix-style package manager for Windows?

I'm not saying it's a good idea, I don't think anyone would really want that, but it could be done.

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