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Expand Up @@ -50,24 +50,35 @@ Explanations of history and ideas in the Nix ecosystem
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## What can you do with Nix?

The following list illustrates some of what can be achieved with the Nix ecosystem:

- {ref}`Reproducible development environments <ad-hoc-envs>`.
- Easy installation of software over URLs.
- Easy transfer of software environments between computers.
- {ref}`Declarative specification of Linux machines <deploy-nixos-using-terraform>`.
- {ref}`Reproducible integration testing using virtual machines <integration-testing-vms>`.
- Avoidance of version conflicts with already installed software.
- Installing software from source code.
- {ref}`Transparent build caching using binary caches <github-actions>`.
- Strong support for software auditability.
- {ref}`First-class cross compilation support <cross-compilation>`.
- Remote builds.
- Remote deployments.
- Atomic upgrades and rollbacks.

## What is Nix?

[Nix](https://github.com/NixOS/nix) allows treating Unix processes as pure functions over file systems.

It is the basis of a growing ecosystem of tools that facilitate repeatable results in software development:
- [Nixpkgs](https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs) is [the largest, most up-to-date software repository in the world](https://repology.org/repositories/graphs).
- [NixOS](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/nixos) is a Linux distribution that can be configured fully declaratively.

## What can you do with the Nix ecosystem?

- Build **executables** with Nix
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- Build **executables** with Nix
- Programmatically build linked directories of plain or executable files with Nix

This is more right but still a mouthful

- Develop software using **libraries or tools** from Nixpkgs
- Configure **services** and deploy them to machines running NixOS
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- Develop software using **libraries or tools** from Nixpkgs
- Configure **services** and deploy them to machines running NixOS
- Develop multilingual software using libraries or tools from Nixpkgs
- Declaratively configure applications with NixOS


## What else can you do with Nix?

The following list illustrates some examples of what can be achieved with the Nix ecosystem:
- {ref}`Reproducible development environments <ad-hoc-envs>`
- Easy installation of software over URLs and from source code
- Easy transfer of software environments between computers
- {ref}`Declarative specification of Linux machines <deploy-nixos-using-terraform>`
- {ref}`Reproducible integration testing using virtual machines <integration-testing-vms>`
- Avoidance of version conflicts with already installed software
- {ref}`Transparent build caching using binary caches <github-actions>`
- Strong support for software auditability
- {ref}`First-class cross compilation support <cross-compilation>`
- Remote builds
- Remote deployments
- Atomic upgrades and rollbacks

## Who is Nix for?

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