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Re:My First Impressions of Nix by SuperSandro2000 on Monday June 19, 2023 @09:50AM (#36391075)
> Is it a package manager?

Yes

> A build system?

No

> An operating system?

Thats NixOS

> A container platform?

nixpkgs has functions to build them

> A sandbox?

No

> An automation tool?

Yes and no

> Which widely used, existing software tools is it analogous to?

Arch Linux plus Haskell plus Ansible plus better

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