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Re:My First Impressions of Nix by ElectricalUnion on Monday June 19, 2023 @02:01PM (#36394446)
In my experience those "others" that "just wrote docker files" are exatly the ones that don't know how to build the system in a reproducible manner if their ci environment gets reset for some reason as they find out that stuff that was "supposed to be there, pinned and configured" wasn't.
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Re:My First Impressions of Nix by thumbuddy on Monday June 19, 2023 @02:24PM (#36394764)
In my experience the months required to get a handle on Nix is not worth the benefit(which is shakey in my opinion) compared to competing technologies. We don't have to agree, but that's my take...
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Re:My First Impressions of Nix by ParetoOptimal on Monday June 19, 2023 @04:13PM (#36395932)
You might want to look at things like:

https://devenv.sh/

https://www.jetpack.io/devbox/

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