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'''Nix flakes''' are an [[Experimental Nix features|experimental feature]] first introduced in the 2.4 [[Nix]] release,{{Cite manual|nix|development/experimental-features|number=13.8|title=Experimental Features|subsection=xp-feature-flakes|subtitle=flakes}}{{Cite manual|nix|release-notes/rl-2.4|number=14.27|title=Release 2.4 (2021-11-01)}} aiming to address a number of areas of improvement for the Nix ecosystem: they provide a uniform structure for Nix projects, allow for pinning specific versions of each dependencies, and sharing these dependencies via lock files, and overall make it more convenient to write reproducible Nix expressions.

Nix flakes are an experimental feature first introduced in the 2.4 Nix release,[1][2] aiming to address a number of areas of improvement for the Nix ecosystem: they provide a uniform structure for Nix projects, allow for pinning specific versions of each dependencies, and sharing these dependencies via lock files, and overall make it more convenient to write reproducible Nix expressions.

  1. Nix Reference Manual, §13.8. Experimental Features, 📖︎ flakes subsection
  2. Nix Reference Manual, §14.27. 📖︎ Release 2.4 (2021-11-01)