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avsmyesterday at 6:01 PM1 replyview on HN

An extremely random fact I noticed when writing the companion article [1] to this (an OCaml experience report):

    "Docker, Guix and NixOS (stable) all had their first releases
    during 2013, making that a bumper year for packaging aficionados."
Now we get coding agent updates every week, but has there been a similar year since 2013 where multiple great projects all came out at the same time?

[1]: https://anil.recoil.org/papers/2025-docker-icfp.pdf


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essephyesterday at 7:50 PM

TBH I feel as if only docker belongs in that list. Guix and nix have users, sure, but not remotely like docker.

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