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title: "Architecture"
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date: 2025-03-14T14:14:35+01:00
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Snix is more decoupled than the existing, monolithic Nix implementation.

In practice, we expect to gain several benefits from this, such as:

 * Ability to use different builders
 * Ability to use different store implementations
 * No monopolisation of the implementation, allowing users to replace components
   that they are unhappy with (up to and including the language evaluator)
 * Less hidden intra-dependencies between tools due to explicit RPC/IPC
   boundaries

In addition to many individual backend implementations, Builders and Store
backends also provide a gRPC server and clients, allowing to plug in your own
implementation.