Nix Description
Nix is a tool which takes a unique approach in package management and system configuration. Learn how to create reliable, reproducible, declarative systems. Nix creates packages isolated from each other. This makes them reproducible and doesn't have undeclared dependency. So if a package is working on one machine, it will also on the other. Nix makes it easy to share development and build environments with your projects regardless of the programming languages or tools you use. Nix makes sure that other packages are not broken by installing or upgrading one package. It allows you to rollback to previous versions and ensures no package is in an unaligned state during an update. Nix is a functional package manager. It treats packages as values in pure functional programming languages like Haskell. Packages are built using functions that have no side effects and never change after they are built.
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fpm
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PureScript
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Free
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Yes
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NixOS
Headquarters:
Netherlands
Website:
nixos.org
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