Comment by MadnessASAP

> 3. The Nix language (and library?) is not sane. Nobody actually understands it, only copy-pastes pieces of existing package scripts and hopes the changes work.

Perhaps Nix is "Wonko the Sane" and it is in fact the rest of us who are in the asylum?

Nix, the language, is a little strange at first but really does make sense. Nixpkgs, the "standard library", is a little stranger and sometimes makes an odd default choice. The nice thing though is that using Nix you can coerce Nixpkgs into just about any shape that suits you.