<story><title>Nix as OS X Package Manager</title><url>http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2016/05/nix-as-os-x-package-manager.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>When I first heard about Docker, I thought it did what Nix does.&lt;p&gt;Then someone handed me a docker image saying, &amp;quot;I got this working on my laptop, deploy this. Isn&amp;#x27;t this great!&amp;quot;.  I had no idea how they arrived at that configuration. If something happened to them or that image, I wouldn&amp;#x27;t have known how to reproduce that &amp;quot;working state&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;So I am happy to see Nix &amp;#x2F; Guix become popular. It is what I imagined package management to be.&lt;p&gt;Before that we just used rpm and deb packages. For all the hate they get, they are actually well thought out, tested, stable format. With {pre&amp;#x2F;post}-{install&amp;#x2F;uninstall} script support, dependency resolution and so on.&lt;p&gt;But Nix &amp;#x2F; Guix is a qualitatively different things. Hope it becomes popular.</text></comment>
<story><title>Nix as OS X Package Manager</title><url>http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2016/05/nix-as-os-x-package-manager.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hso1</author><text>Since I discovered Nix, I&amp;#x27;ve been using it as a package manager for OS X and Linux. Every project my team is working on now has a default.nix file. Getting started on a project is so easy for a new hire now: just one `nix-env` away from a fully working dev environment! :D</text></comment>