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Oh, I completely forgot about Guix. I definitely want to try it out at some point, but for some reason I feel like it will be more complicated than Nix and it will lack features.
I haven’t used immutables yet, but from what I’ve heard, guix is architecturally extremely similar to nix
It's similar to Nix in the sense that it's declarative and can entirely configured in a single config file, but I think the Nix implementation of this concept might be better. Have to try out Guix though.