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That article on "What is Nix and .. " does not contain the words "Nix is a..." A quick read gave a vague sense that it was about installs and file paths so maybe something package-related? Nothing definite.

If you click through to https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills/why-you-should-give-it-a-t...

you will see "Nix is a purely functional package manager and deployment system for POSIX"

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I get the feel that Nix does something like what virtualenv does for python, but more generalized to make that work for other software. Is that approximately right?

Yes, I also was immediately reminded of Python's conda based environment management. E.g. 'source activate <env1>' may have python3 but when used with <env2> will use python2 and different version of other libraries.

Yes I recommend the nix pills they are really awesome and how I learned Nix!

Links?

https://nixos.org/nixos/nix-pills/

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