Nix

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 Build Automation category of a tech stack.

Nix Pros & Cons

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Nix Integrations

Nixery, Hercules CI, Starship (Shell Prompt), Jetpack Devbox, devenv and 2 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Nix. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Nix.

Nixery

Hercules CI

Starship (Shell Prompt)

Nix Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Nix?

NuGet

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

RubyGems

It is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries, a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them.

Bower

Bower is a package manager for the web. It offers a generic, unopinionated solution to the problem of front-end package management, while exposing the package dependency model via an API that can be consumed by a more opinionated build stack. There are no system wide dependencies, no dependencies are shared between different apps, and the dependency tree is flat.

Terraform Registry

With Terraform, you describe your complete infrastructure as code, even as it spans multiple service providers. Your servers may come from AWS, your DNS may come from CloudFlare, and your database may come from Heroku. Terraform will build all these resources across all these providers in parallel.

Nix Integrations

Nixery, Hercules CI, Starship (Shell Prompt), Jetpack Devbox, devenv and 2 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Nix. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Nix.