It's not necessarily that one is better than another; it can be complementary. I tend to think that Nix makes many of the reasons to use a container superfluous

It's not necessarily that one is better than another; it can be complementary. I tend to think that Nix makes many of the reasons to use a container superfluous, but there still remain other reasons to use containers. For example, a talk about using both Docker and Nix (yep, that's me ;) ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l17oRkhgqHE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l17oRkhgqHE