Nix Glossary
Browse 3 nix terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
3 Nix Terms
- Nix Package
- A package defined and managed within the Nix ecosystem, usually as part of declarative package expressions and reproducible environments. In developer culture,...
- Nixpkgs
- The primary package repository for the Nix package manager, containing over 100,000 package definitions written as Nix expressions that declaratively describe...
- Nix Shell
- A shell environment created through Nix that provides a specific set of dependencies or tools reproducibly without polluting the rest of the system. In...
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