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The future of software is Nix
I've known this since before I found Nix in 2016
In a sense, the world was starting to realize what Eelco had identified over ten years prior: that pinning versions and hashing dependencies was not just worth doing, but critical to software security. Critical infrastructure running power grids and nuclear reactors and robots and scientific research is woefully insecure because it is simply too hard and scary to maintain. I still think that even if flakes are occasionally annoying, or even if there are flaws in their design, they’re predictable, improve build performance, add stability, and facilitate collaboration across developers and teams.
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