I think it is intuitive once you spend the time to read the docs. I think folks expect they can pick it up and hack at it like many other languages. It's one

I think it is intuitive once you spend the time to read the docs. I think folks expect they can pick it up and hack at it like many other languages. It's one that is worth spending the time to work through the pills, understand what it is doing, why and how. A lot of the confusion and frustration I've seen people have with nix the language could have been avoided if they spent a little time to pick up at least the fundamentals.