Nix Impermanence & Ideas for Rewriting Nix

Nix Your Bugs & Rust Your Engines is a new meetup for people in the Rhein-Neckar region that are interested in Rust (the programming language), Nix (the package manager), or NixOS (the Linux distribution). For the Nix part of our third meetup on April 29, 2024, Vanessa Alexandra Hollmeier held two talks: 1:50 - Impermanence and Nix 23:15 - Rewriting Nix: some ideas

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