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