Thoughtful article about building older software with Nix: https://blinry.org/nix-time-travel/
It's striking how a project that does so much excellent work on build reproducibility still has some build errors in this scenario. Bitrot is scary.
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A colleague pointed out to me that bitrot is much faster when you have more external deps. NIH isn't a solution either — tricky problem.