To be fair, a huge part of the functionality in nixpkgs and NixOS is provided by a ton of bash code, both standalone files and big strings in .nix files. Repla

To be fair, a huge part of the functionality in nixpkgs and NixOS is provided by a ton of bash code, both standalone files and big strings in .nix files. Replacing that with Scheme sounds like a long-term win to me; although in the short term I imagine it makes packaging the contents of a bash-dominated world more frustrating.