-Nix achieves reproducibility by managing the complete dependencies graph (the _closure_) of a project, this also make it a great candidate as a cross-compilation framework! While this will not be discussed in this article, it worth noticing this is one of the main reason of why we love it at IOG. Other challenges solved by Nix are: How do we sync workspaces to make sure we're all dealing with the same technical stack? How do we make sure that Developer A can reuse the work of Developer B? One last way of introducing Nix is to say that it ensure that your developer environment respect a _semantic contract_. Like you can write a program that precisely and accurately states a meaning of some thing (e.g., the meaning of `2 + 2` _is_ the symbol `4`), with Nix you get a semantic contract for, e.g. in our case, a _shell closure_, which means a developer environment.
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