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Nix vs NuGet: What are the differences?

Nix: A package manager for Linux and other Unix systems *. It makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments; *NuGet:** The package manager for .NET. A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension.

Nix and NuGet belong to "Package Managers" category of the tech stack.

Nix is an open source tool with 2.57K GitHub stars and 453 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Nix's open source repository on GitHub.

Hangfire, Nexosis, and Selligent Marketing Cloud are some of the popular companies that use NuGet, whereas Nix is used by RELEX Solutions, Grafted-In, and Chill Code. NuGet has a broader approval, being mentioned in 20 company stacks & 43 developers stacks; compared to Nix, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

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    What is Nix?

    It makes package management reliable and reproducible. It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a package, multi-user package management and easy setup of build environments.

    What is NuGet?

    A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension.

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    What are some alternatives to Nix and NuGet?
    ZAP
    It is a free, open-source penetration testing tool. It is designed specifically for testing web applications and is both flexible and extensible.
    Docker
    The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
    Homebrew
    Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple didn’t. Homebrew installs packages to their own directory and then symlinks their files into /usr/local.
    Bazel
    Bazel is a build tool that builds code quickly and reliably. It is used to build the majority of Google's software, and thus it has been designed to handle build problems present in Google's development environment.
    RubyGems
    It is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries, a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them.
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