derivations

The article explores Nix's laziness, showing how attribute paths can lazily generate infinite trees, and turns this into a fun hack where each button press in Super Mario Bros. 3 is a separate Nix derivation with the store as savestate history.

A technical exploration showing how Nix can build a Guix derivation, highlighting the shared underlying 'Input Output Machine' architecture and the possibility of cross-ecosystem interoperability.