Comment by azeirah

Huh? I use Nix to create containers. Nix is a programming language, a build tool, a package manager and an entire ecosystem of extremely powerful tools.

The entire reason why I use Nix in the first place is because it allows me to containerize with _better_ reproducibility than docker itself.

I do get where you're coming from though. It's not immediately clear that Nix can do all this stuff. Nix is a lot more than just "glorified weird package manager".

At its core, Nix is a way to specify dependencies in a mathematically sound manner. Once you have that pure dependency graph managed with Nix, you can start doing the _real_ fun stuff.

Like, you can containerize it. Or you can create a VM from it, or an ISO, or a NixOS distribution with _only_ that package installed.

Nix actually makes containerization _easier_, not harder. But yes, I empathize. Nix is a mess and it is difficult to understand, it will take a few more years before it is fully settled.

In the meantime? I'm going all-in on Nix (the philosophy, not necessarily any particular variant) because I really strongly believe this is the way forward.