About the Nix Project

The Nix project is developed by a group of researchers and hackers across the Internet. For question about the project or this website, please contact the nix-dev mailing list or the primary maintainer, Eelco Dolstra.

Acknowledgments

The Nix package manager was developed by Eelco Dolstra as part of his PhD research in the TraCE project, funded by the Jacquard programme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and SERC. The first prototype of NixOS was developed by Armijn Hemel as his master’s thesis project. Hydra, the Nix-based continuous build system, was developed as part of the LaQuSo Buildfarm project, funded by NIRICT / LaQuSo. Current Nix-related research takes place in the PDS project, funded by Jacquard and supported by Philips Healthcare, and at LogicBlox.