[cmyr]

I mean, it is expressed pretty clearly in the article; it uses Nix to manage external dependencies, and manages setting link paths and other build bookkeeping.

[Surfactant7]

Thanks. I scanned right past the most important part for the article to get get right, mainly because it was buried in a paragraph, and wrapped in parenthesis no less:

> ... But unfortunately they’re not so great at installing dependencies written in other languages (we call these external dependencies). ...

I'm sure it's a fine project. However, the article itself is not great at explaining the value proposition.