Nix

Disclaimers:

• I'm new to Nix myself (About 6 months and few contributions)
• This is a really high-level talk, I'm leaving countless details intentionally.

Overview

• Nix & I (problems)
• What is Nix?
• Why Nix?
• Deployments
• OCI images without Dockerfiles

Problems

• Onboarding new members
• It works on my computer! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  
• Cross-compilation
• Stale docker images
• System-level dependency management
• E.g. LLVM ecosystem on the CI

What is Nix?

• Nix the language
• Nix the package manager
• Nix the OS