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Re:Will Nix Overtake Docker? by vineyardmike on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @01:25PM (#29395557)
Many orgs get reproducible builds by using different build tools and abstractions. Eg Amazon gets it via their Brazil tool.
Re:Will Nix Overtake Docker? by throwaway894345 on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @10:10PM (#29400226)
I was talking about Nix in particular, but yes, if you’re an enormous and highly lucrative tech company you can pay a team of engineers to build your own reproducible build tool. If the same team is very talented they can probably even get Bazel working. ;) But I don’t think any large orgs at all use Nix, presumably because it doesn’t scale beyond a small number of (enthusiastic) developers.