https://github.com/nixos/nix

Nix, the purely functional package manager
https://github.com/nixos/nix

c-plus-plus declarative-language functional-programming nix package-manager

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Nix, the purely functional package manager

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nixos/nix
• Owner: NixOS
• License: lgpl-2.1
• Created: 2012-02-08T10:17:59.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-05-05T07:42:25.000Z (8 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-05-05T23:13:40.874Z (7 days ago)
• Topics: c-plus-plus, declarative-language, functional-programming, nix, package-manager
• Language: C++
• Homepage: https://nixos.org/
• Size: 116 MB
• Stars: 14,213
• Watchers: 120
• Forks: 1,636
• Open Issues: 3,617
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: COPYING
  • Citation: CITATION.cff
  • Codeowners: .github/CODEOWNERS

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# Nix

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Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package

management reliable and reproducible. Please refer to the [Nix manual](https://nix.dev/reference/nix-manual)

for more details.

## Installation and first steps

Visit [nix.dev](https://nix.dev) for [installation instructions](https://nix.dev/tutorials/install-nix) and [beginner tutorials](https://nix.dev/tutorials/first-steps).

Full reference documentation can be found in the [Nix manual](https://nix.dev/reference/nix-manual).

## Building and developing

Follow instructions in the Nix reference manual to [set up a development environment and build Nix from source](https://nix.dev/manual/nix/development/development/building.html).

## Contributing

Check the [contributing guide](./CONTRIBUTING.md) if you want to get involved with developing Nix.

## Additional resources

Nix was created by Eelco Dolstra and developed as the subject of his PhD thesis [The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model](https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf), published 2006.

Today, a world-wide developer community contributes to Nix and the ecosystem that has grown around it.

- [The Nix, Nixpkgs, NixOS Community on nixos.org](https://nixos.org/)

- [Official documentation on nix.dev](https://nix.dev)

- [Nixpkgs](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs) is [the largest, most up-to-date free software repository in the world](https://repology.org/repositories/graphs)

- [NixOS](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/nixos) is a Linux distribution that can be configured fully declaratively

- [Discourse](https://discourse.nixos.org/)

- Matrix: [#users:nixos.org](https://matrix.to/#/#users:nixos.org) for user support and [#nix-dev:nixos.org](https://matrix.to/#/#nix-dev:nixos.org) for development

## License

Nix is released under the [LGPL v2.1](./COPYING).