I work for Flox and maintain Nix. AMA
I'm excited to see more interest in the core ideas this technology brings. Our vision is to make it accessible - bring this set of super-powers to the world.
I'm excited to see more interest in the core ideas this technology brings. Our vision is to make it accessible - bring this set of super-powers to the world.
There has also been sharing of ideas and collaboration between things us and bazel/buck/spack/etc. I think it is clear that we are all moving towards a similar end state, that often looks very much like Nix, or a re-invention of it.
For things like OCI, Nix predates it, but we should start to re-use the standard. The Tvix group is exploring this and I'd suspect our sandboxing will be OCI at some point. For outputs; we make it easy to convert a Nix package into an equivalent container. Things like flatpack,AppImage,Snap should also be easy for people to output (i'm trying to collect these "transformers"/"bundlers" here: https://github.com/NixOS/bundlers).