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Wouldn't it still have been less effort to port Nix to Windows, than to write an entirely new package manager and then port it to every OS?


If that were the only downside, possibly. I don't really do Windows development, so I can't tell you how difficult porting Nix would be. There's large advantage to having a packaging system that knows your language well. It's going to have tighter integration than a generic one ever could.




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