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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hard to describe in one phrase other than to say:

NixOS is to Linux as Unison is to Haskell

Content-addressing used in the context of programming languages in the service of solving the problem of distributed systems and their inability to share code across time and space.

Haskell has a content-addressed module that was perhaps influenced by Unison.

Here’s an excellent interview with one of the authors of Unison:

https://youtu.be/zHzpoVgqgc4