Not really, nix is way more flexible and more up to date and nix also often runs tests and different pythons cannot interfere with each other that easily. On a high level things are similar but the details are wastly different.
> Or you could create a hermetic environment, where an app gets an isolated copy of dependencies, specific just to the single app, a situation similar to using virtual env.
That could also be done with nix but is often not because upstream pin quality is often lacking.
Not really, nix is way more flexible and more up to date and nix also often runs tests and different pythons cannot interfere with each other that easily. On a high level things are similar but the details are wastly different.
> Or you could create a hermetic environment, where an app gets an isolated copy of dependencies, specific just to the single app, a situation similar to using virtual env.
That could also be done with nix but is often not because upstream pin quality is often lacking.