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+# Nix is everywhere
+
+Nix is the universal build and [configuration management] tool.
+
+[configuration management]: https://www.sebokwiki.org/wiki/Configuration_Management
+
+Software developers use Nix as a matter of course every day, mostly without even noticing.
+Nix runs trivially, anywhere.
+
+For individuals to large organizations, Nix underpins the entire software supply chain:
+- Developer tooling
+- Build automation
+- Binary distribution
+
+To this end, the Nix team will work towards the following goals.
+
+## Make Nix easy to adopt
+
+  - Well-defined target user base
+      - anyone who wants to manage the complexity of - and build - software
+      - transform bits in a declarative and reproducible way
+  - Well-defined core user stories
+    - Ad hoc environments
+        - One-liner setup (nix-shell)
+    - Declarative environments
+        - One-liner setup ("templates")
+        - Easy modification/extension
+        - Easy and transparent usage ("direnv"/"lorri")
+    - Secret management as first-class citizen
+    - Configurations as first-class citizens
+        - Configuration/Modules/Nickel/etc.
+    - Language bindings
+    - Supply chain trust solution
+        - Content-addressed derivation
+        - Build result signing, key distribution
+        - SBOM/SLSA
+    - Unprivileged installation and use
+        <!-- valentin: this needs clarification, I still don't know what rewriting is -->
+        - Portable store?
+        - restricted-root
+        - ACLs
+        - rewriting
+    - ...
+  - Linux, MacOS and Windows support at feature parity
+
+## Make Nix a tool that users can rely on
+
+  - Reliable installer
+  - Effective testing
+    - Test coverage for all major use cases
+    - Memory safety validation (sanitizers, ...)
+    - Benchmarking infrastructure
+    - Test reports published and accessible
+  - Executable language specification
+ 
+## Make Nix a good investment for users
+
+  - Explicit compatibility guarantees (and non-guarantees)
+    - Commitment to uncompromising reproducibility
+    - Well-defined release process
+    - Feature support status
+    - Deprecation strategy
+    - LTS commitments
+    - Close Flakes schism, remove uncertanity/ambiguity/confusion
+
+  - Exemplary contributor and maintainer experience
+    - Recommended development setup
+    - Testing guidance
+    - Formalize review criteria
+    - Formalize design criteria (technical invariants)
+    - Well-defined architecture of isolated components
+        - Swappable store
+          - Formalize store protocol
+        - Swappable Nix language evaluator
+        - Swappable scheduler and remote-build system
+            - Integrate Hydra (modulo UI) into Nix
+            - Remote protocol speed and reliability improvements
+            - Binary cache protocol speed improvements
+
+    - Minimal custom code base (proven off-the-shelf components where possible)
+      - Git file hashing
+      - Sandboxing, containers
+      - Capnproto for RPC
+      - Bazel RBE protocol
+      - ...