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Should work fine. I really recommend installing the nix package manager on your current distro to play with the language and how it works, I did it on arch to get familiar and it has been really helpful.
Ooooh is that like a pseudo docker-compose type thing to learn the declarative language?
am not familiar with docker-compose
It’s docker’s declarative way to set up one or more images, network them together and externally, etc… it looks a bit similar to the nix language.
I guess you could compare the two then, but Nix is a full on functional programming language with functions, variables etc. You can also define derivations to compile programs with it. It’s pretty cool.