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    27 days 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