What Nix Can Do

What is Nix? What is NixOS? You've heard of it, but what does it actually do? The answer is everything. Using Nix, we can reproduce anything, anywhere, any time. Bringing ancient HAM radio packages back from the dead, cross compilation to any foreign architecture, including bootstrapping the compiler itself, isolating packages from each other at runtime, building OCI images, building embedded Linux system images, deployments, you name it. Nix can do it. Some have even taken to calling Nix "the art of containers without containers".

In this talk, I will demonstrate all of what I've learned, and show you what Nix is capable of in a live interactive demo.

You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up at your shell and believe whatever you want to believe. Continuing to run installers mutating your system in blissful ignorance. Not questioning whether - perhaps - your package dependencies are incomplete. Accepting that one version is more than any person ever needs. Never worrying how to get here all over again.

You take the Nix pill - you stay in wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole of reproducibility goes