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Future editions of flakes or the Nix language can be supported by renaming flake.nix (e.g. flake-v2.nix). This avoids a bootstrap problem where we don't know which grammar to use to parse flake*.nix. It also allows a project to support multiple flake editions, in theory.
Nix, the purely functional package manager
Nix is a new take on package management that is fairly unique. Because of its purity aspects, a lot of issues found in traditional package managers don't appear with Nix.
To find out more about the tool, usage and installation instructions, please read the manual, which is available on the Nix website at https://nixos.org/nix/manual.
Contributing
Take a look at the Hacking Section of the manual. It helps you to get started with building Nix from source.
License
Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1