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Try Brilliant free for 30 days https://brilliant.org/fireship You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. Nix is a purely functional package mana...
  • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
    67·
    2 months ago

    Each package and its dependencies are stored in their own unique folder

    If all those electron / web app haters could read, they’d be very upset right now.

    • expr@programming.dev
      161·
      2 months ago

      This is completely different from electron. Nix dependencies will be shared if they share the same hash. Electron just blindly copies everything over every time.

      • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
        16·
        2 months ago

        Electron just copies over the browser engine required to run it, from a package management standpoint, assuming you’re using nom or yarn, it functions the same as nix.