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Re:My First Impressions of Nix by chisquared on Monday June 19, 2023 @07:36AM (#36389832)
Huh, is this what Nix users mean by “impure”?

If so, then it makes so much more sense to me now.

Re:My First Impressions of Nix by rgoulter on Monday June 19, 2023 @07:58AM (#36390019)
Yes, but 'pure' might mean different things at different levels.

In a programming language, 'pure' would just refer to "function where you get the same output from the same input; no side effects".

In parent's case, there was an 'impurity' such that the package is meaningfully different depending on the machine it was built on.