Nix concepts
The whys and the hows of Nix
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Caching Channels Closures Declarative programming Derivations Development environments Ecosystem FlakeHub Hermeticity Nix flakes Incremental builds The Nix language The Determinate Nix Installer The Nix store Nix NixOS Nixpkgs Packages Pinning dependencies Package management Provenance Realisation Sandboxing System specificity Reproducibility