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Yes, and it has been great. I recently had to diagnose a problem in some software and its dependencies, and I needed a quick way to try different build flags and dependency versions. Nix's deterministic builds (and having access to all of the packages definitions in one location) are a huge help here: it only took a couple seconds of configuring between each build, and I quickly isolated responsible library/version out of a couple dozen deps.


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