Comment by copper_rose

Nix's functional software deployment model is a useful tool for building software reproducibly, but reproducible builds are neither the primary motivation for nor the primary goal of the Nix model. For information on what problems it aims to solve, how it solves them, and how it can be applied in various useful ways (e.g., a package manager is just one particular thing you can implement using the Nix model), I suggest you read the first chapter of the thesis I linked earlier. It's very interesting, and I think you'll find that the model can be applied to problems like this; it's not just about building software reproducibly, although software that builds reproducibly is conducive to the model.