Epsilon_02@Epsilon_02@chaos.social

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@vivekanandanks thanks for clarification.
How about going with the history of the name "nix" which has a few different meanings, dependents how you interpret it. As far as I remember it comes from the dutch word "niks" which means "nothing", also the German word "nix" means also "nothing".
So with #nix / #lix / #guix we are able to produce something out of nothing 🤔
Well I also found out that "nix" should mean "snowflake" in Latin.

Aside from that I like #declarative and #atomic the most.

Epsilon_02@Epsilon_02@chaos.social

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@vivekanandanks another thought of mine is, that #nix is already the word for all the other things, because #lix is as fork of it and works with the same language, also determinate nix. #guix is also a fork of nix IIRC.So with nix you mean all of it because everything else was created out of it
I think that's the same as "let me google it" which just means I search through the internet and I don't have to use Google for this kind of task. Its easier to say as "let me search through the internet"

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