What is Nix?
It makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments.
Nix is a tool in the Package Managers category of a tech stack.
Nix is an open source tool with 12.8K GitHub stars and 1.5K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Nix's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Nix?
Companies
54 companies reportedly use Nix in their tech stacks, including Target, CentralApp, and KeepTruckin.
Developers
179 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Nix.
Nix Integrations
Replit, Starship (Shell Prompt), Nixery, devenv, and Jetpack Devbox are some of the popular tools that integrate with Nix. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Nix.
Nix Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Nix?
ZAP
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Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
Homebrew
Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple didn’t. Homebrew installs packages to their own directory and then symlinks their files into /usr/local.
Bazel
Bazel is a build tool that builds code quickly and reliably. It is used to build the majority of Google's software, and thus it has been designed to handle build problems present in Google's development environment.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
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