# What are interesting, unique, and/or non-standard uses of Nix?

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**Created:** [May 9, 2021, 11:50am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/what-are-interesting-unique-and-or-non-standard-uses-of-nix/12977 "2021-05-09T11:50:25Z")
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### Author: ![zimbatm](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/zimbatm/32/4_2.png) [@zimbatm](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/zimbatm)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/what-are-interesting-unique-and-or-non-standard-uses-of-nix/12977/2 "2021-05-09T14:31:51Z")

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Here are two that come to mind:

Fractalide is a programming language built on top of Nix: [GitHub - fractalide/fractalide: Reusable Reproducible Composable Software](https://github.com/fractalide/fractalide)

Styx is a static site generator that uses Nix to compose the output: [Home - Styx Static Site Generator](https://styx-static.github.io/styx-site/)

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