Nix: the Language, the Tool, the Package Repo, the OS
There’s a lot going on in the Nix ecosystem. If you haven’t slogged through the thesis then it might seem downright opaque. This is my attempt at an easy explainer for newcomers. The Tool and the Language Let’s bootstrap ourselves with some circular facts. Nix is a tool for building (or “packaging”) software components using instructions expressed in the Nix language. The Nix language is even able to package the Nix tool (which is mostly written in C++), thus closing the epistemological loop. ...