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Re:Free applicatives, the handle pattern, and remote systems by leohonexus on Thursday October 16, 2025 @07:37AM (#45604136)
And they even use Nix, to add to the craziness.

[0] https://flox.dev/nixinthewild/nix-in-the-wild-bellroy/

Re:Free applicatives, the handle pattern, and remote systems by cosmic_quanta on Thursday October 16, 2025 @08:33AM (#45604571)
Nix isn't so exotic anymore. Every company for which I interviewed about a year ago used Nix
Re:Free applicatives, the handle pattern, and remote systems by YuukiRey on Thursday October 16, 2025 @09:49AM (#45605298)
And every person I met today had a parrot on their shoulder. Doesn't really mean it applies to the general public (here meaning most developers out there).

I'd say <1% of all developers world wide have even heard of Nix.

Re:Free applicatives, the handle pattern, and remote systems by ameliaquining on Thursday October 16, 2025 @02:41PM (#45609103)
It is used in production much, much more widely than Haskell is, though it remains far from the most common way to do builds or deployments.