It also doesn't have anything to do with Haskell or it looking somewhat like Haskell. I'm very comfortable in Haskell, and Nix looks awful to me. It's not that

It also doesn't have anything to do with Haskell or it looking somewhat like Haskell. I'm very comfortable in Haskell, and Nix looks awful to me. It's not that it's functional or it's declarative, it's that it's badly designed and not intuitive, making it hard to remember and therefore awkward to code in.