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Xerz 💗 on Nostr: nprofile1q…gx3yv nprofile1q…q6679 I have to agree the learning curve is ...

I have to agree the learning curve is supersteep, not because of the language (it's just a functional lang with a basic syntax, implicit typing, attrsets as functions and derivations as output) but because of the arbitrary, disorganized, sometimes poorly documented constructs that Nixpkgs provides

Most things you want to do can't be done just by looking up Stack Overflow or the Nix Discourse and blindly copy-pasting: you need to understand the fundamentals and figure out how to use the REPL and read the source code. That's very demanding.