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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