Well, Guix started as Nix with established language, and that didn't really made it better. The Nix language is functional and lazily evaluated, it closely mat

Well, Guix started as Nix with established language, and that didn't really made it better. The Nix language is functional and lazily evaluated, it closely matches how Nix works builds packages, which basically makes it less verbose. Even if they used python (or python like language like starlark), and then proceed to build an abstractions on top of it, barely documenting the function. Leaving old ones with the new ones, you would still be confused and frustrated needing to look at the source code.