What's a good source, for someone who has never used nix, to read about its conceptual model and how it is different from contemporary dependency managers?
https://www.channable.com/tech/nix-is-the-ultimate-devops-to...
(It doesn't go very much in depth on the conceptual model, but touches on the the main ideas)
Everything else is mostly written to teach people how to use Nix, and the more recent the thing is the more it will focus on surface-level features of the C++ implementation of Nix.