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Nix vs NuGet: What are the differences?

Nix: A package manager for Linux and other Unix systems *. 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; *NuGet:** The package manager for .NET. A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension.

Nix and NuGet belong to "Package Managers" category of the tech stack.

Nix is an open source tool with 2.57K GitHub stars and 453 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Nix's open source repository on GitHub.

Hangfire, Nexosis, and Selligent Marketing Cloud are some of the popular companies that use NuGet, whereas Nix is used by RELEX Solutions, Grafted-In, and Chill Code. NuGet has a broader approval, being mentioned in 20 company stacks & 43 developers stacks; compared to Nix, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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    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.

    What is NuGet?

    A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension.

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