What is Nix and what are its top alternatives?
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 13.9K GitHub stars and 1.6K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Nix's open source repository on GitHub