Re:My First Impressions of Nix
by duped on Monday June 19, 2023 @10:50AM
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> They hate it when people call it containerization but it's effectively taking containerization to the extreme for every single bit of software on your system with no ability to not use containers.
It's not containerization - containerization means something very specific (user namespaces + chroot). It may attack some of the same problems, but it is not a container.
The sandbox that nix builds run within is more or less a container, however.
It's not containerization - containerization means something very specific (user namespaces + chroot). It may attack some of the same problems, but it is not a container.
The sandbox that nix builds run within is more or less a container, however.