Nix [...] and a terrible language I never get this criticism. Nix is a pretty nice, small, functional programming language and lazy evaluation makes it really

Nix [...] and a terrible language I never get this criticism. Nix is a pretty nice, small, functional programming language and lazy evaluation makes it really powerful (see e.g. using fixed-points for overlays). I wonder if this criticism comes from people who have never done any functional programming? When I first started with Nix six years ago, the language was one of the things I immediately liked a lot. What I didn't like was the lack of documentation for all the functions, hooks, etc. in nixpkgs, though it certainly got better with time.