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Why We're Moving on from Nix
Today we’re excited to release Railpack — the next iteration of the Railway builder, developed from the ground up based on everything we’ve learned from building over 14 million apps with Nixpacks.
Today we’re excited to release Railpack — the next iteration of the Railway builder, developed from the ground up and based on everything we’ve learned from building over 14 million apps with Nixpacks. We generate a custom BuildKit LLB+ Frontend to give us much more control over how the final image is constructed — resulting in 38% smaller base Node and 77% smaller base Python images compared to building with Nixpacks We use Mise for version resolution and most package installation, though it leaves room to support other executable sources in the future We're now able to lock the dependencies used when a successful build happens. Each command runs in its own stage of a multi-stage build and provide precise control over the input layers and how the final file system is assembled.
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