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Nix vs WAPM: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is WAPM? The WebAssembly Package Manager. The wapm client can install packages, manage WebAssembly dependencies, and expose WebAssembly behavior with commands.

Nix and WAPM can be primarily classified as "Package Managers" tools.

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.

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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 WAPM?

The wapm client can install packages, manage WebAssembly dependencies, and expose WebAssembly behavior with commands.

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