> I was trying to bring NixOS to a bare minimum, which is an exercise similar to building containers with the bare minimum required for the software in the container to run. I think this is a worthy endeavour. I think we have all the tools in regular non-docker, non-kubernetes linux to get to a similar outcome, except we won’t need docker or kubernetes or whatever in this new land, thus removing quite a bunch of complexity from the systems we build.

> But doing it on top of NixOS currently feels like a bad path to take.

The author of this blog post might be interested in playing with not-os, another, much smaller OS built with Nix: https://github.com/cleverca22/not-os

Could be a decent source of inspiration!