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"To deal with this nix provides the nix-shell utility which constructs an environment on demand and runs a new shell based on that environment."

I'm sure nix is cool but this sort of sounds like something we just end up using docker for these days (for better or worse).



Yes, Docker is a competing solution. Hopefully in the future we will see a better one, more nix-like.


Does Docker actually compete with Nix?

It seems that Docker is more concerned with containment and Nix with packages. I would love to be able to use Nix to define my project+dependencies and Docker to run it.

I'd be surprised if someone hasn't already made a baseline NixOS docker image to build off of.




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