# Nix on Windows?

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-on-windows/1113
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [October 10, 2018, 6:52am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-on-windows/1113 "2018-10-10T06:52:18Z")
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### Author: ![volth](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/volth/32/272_2.png) [@volth](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/volth)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2021, 10:18pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-on-windows/1113/48 "2021-02-28T22:18:55Z")

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BTW, Rakudo (Perl 6) might be a good candidate for the language of imperative builders (in place where we use `bash` on Linux).  
It is:

- more expressive than Bash (and Perl 5)
- has a lot of features from Haskell to make FP people happy
- has excellent Unicode support
- and (what is rare among scripting languages, because most of them were quickly ported from Unix land) it works well with Windows paths, including symlinks

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