> That's irrelevant - if you want uptake Haskell's slogan is "avoid success at all costs". Haskell isn't aiming for mass adoption. It wants to be a language fo

> That's irrelevant - if you want uptake Haskell's slogan is "avoid success at all costs". Haskell isn't aiming for mass adoption. It wants to be a language for researching functional programming, it just so happens it's a useful language, and people write real software with it too. From https://haskell.foundation/whitepaper/ https://haskell.foundation/whitepaper/ > Haskell's slogan of "avoid success at all costs" was a clever and cheeky way of saying that innovation and research in programming languages, especially in functional programming, needed some insulation to succeed Nix doesn't have such a slogan as far as I know. It, however, started as a thesis to try and research and innovate new ideas. https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model. Twenty years later, it's been rather successful as a research project, one of the most active repos on GitHub. It has gained a lot of usage and support without trying to be successful, popular or market itself. The Nix language has helped it achieve what it set out to achieve. It's appealing to people who are interested in purely functional software. If that doesn't appeal to Javascript / PHP devs that's ok as it isn't trying to appeal to them. The Nix expression language is small and pretty simple; everything is an expression. The difficult bit is there are no javadoc/jsdoc/pydoc type docs beyond https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/expressions/builtins.html https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/expressions/builtins.htm... where you can go search easily. You have to go through the source code to find functions and see how they work. Also, you have to accept Nix is a ML style language, not a C style language. It's different to what you may know, but that isn't a fault of the language if someone only knows C style languages. The language is as it needed to be like that to achieve the design it wanted. Personally, I hate using Ansible firstly because of YAML. Secondly, Ansible is a task runner, often feeling like you are over abusing Ansible for things that are not a natural fit, and the debug headache dealing with determinism by convention only. I think it comes down to Nix isn't for you. That's ok.