Question: why do you decide to use nix? is bazel not sufficient?

[tuananh]

Question: why do you decide to use nix? is bazel not sufficient?

[jvolkman]

Mostly because Nix has a large repository of pre-built packages to pull from, and has good support for both Linux and Mac OS (which engineers at my company use).

For example, in our application we use Nix to provide Postgres for integration tests. It's probably possible to download binaries of postgres somehow (or build from source) with Bazel, but it's much easier with Nix.

[tuananh]

Thank you :)