Yes - that was exactly my point. It has nothing to do with the configuration language. The end result of nix(os) could just as well be done from a bash script (

Yes - that was exactly my point. It has nothing to do with the configuration language. The end result of nix(os) could just as well be done from a bash script (not advisable, no). And the problems with ansible would not be any better off if they had used something like the nix-language instead.