declarative. reproducible. human-friendly.
Lix is a modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth – and committed to doing right by its community.
Lix is a modern, delicious implementation of the Nix package manager, focused on correctness, usability, and growth – and committed to doing right by its community.
Like other Nix ecosystems, Lix layers together multiple projects to create a full Lix stack — allowing you to forge your own systems on a base of community work.
The ecosystem's core is the Lix package manager — a community variant of the Nix configuration language and package management system.
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Lix is fully compatible with existing Nix expressions — which means it benefits from the hundreds of thousands of existing community-maintained packages and configurations.
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Lix can also be used as the core Nix implementation for Nix-based systems, including the full NixOS distribution, as well as system management software like Home Manager or nix-darwin.
use Lix with NixOS
nix with a modern flavor
Lix is designed to grow and evolve — in a way that never breaks backwards compatibility. Lix intends to support language versioning features — so we can continuously improve the language without affecting existing configurations.
an independent ecosystem
Lix is designed to avoid ecosystem lock-in: you can build and use Lix without any dependency on corporate-controlled infrastructure, like Microsoft's GitHub.
a human-friendly implementation
Declarative configurations may run on machines — but their interface shouldn't be designed for them! The Lix team is constantly working on usability and ergonomics enhancements — including tools that let you better see and interact with your configuration.