> Not sure how Nix doesn’t win the readability contest Not sure how you can be serious. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/d600f006643e074c2ef1d72e462e218b

> Not sure how Nix doesn’t win the readability contest Not sure how you can be serious. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/d600f006643e074c2ef1d72e462e218b647a096c/pkgs/development/go-modules/generic/default.nix#L148-L166 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/d600f006643e074c2ef1d7... buildGoDir() { local d; local cmd; cmd="$1" d="$2" . $TMPDIR/buildFlagsArray echo "$d" | grep -q "\(/_\|examples\|Godeps\|testdata\)" && return 0 [ -n "$excludedPackages" ] && echo "$d" | grep -q "$excludedPackages" && return 0 local OUT if ! OUT="$(go $cmd $buildFlags "''${buildFlagsArray[@]}" -v -p $NIX_BUILD_CORES $d 2>&1)"; then if ! echo "$OUT" | grep -qE '(no( buildable| non-test)?|build constraints exclude all) Go (source )?files'; then echo "$OUT" >&2 return 1 fi fi if [ -n "$OUT" ]; then echo "$OUT" >&2 fi return 0 } (Do note the Nix escaping on top of the shell horrors.) Nix just comes from a culture of utter utter horrible code. It's my daily driver, but I am holding my nose. https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/94ec9e47030c2a7280503d338f0dca7ad92811f5/src/nix-build/nix-build.cc#L483-L512 https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/94ec9e47030c2a7280503d338f... std::string rc = fmt( R"(_nix_shell_clean_tmpdir() { rm -rf %1%; }; )"s + (keepTmp ? "trap _nix_shell_clean_tmpdir EXIT; " "exitHooks+=(_nix_shell_clean_tmpdir); " "failureHooks+=(_nix_shell_clean_tmpdir); ": "_nix_shell_clean_tmpdir; ") + (pure ? "" : "[ -n \"$PS1\" ] && [ -e ~/.bashrc ] && source ~/.bashrc;") + "%2%" "dontAddDisableDepTrack=1;\n" + structuredAttrsRC + "\n[ -e $stdenv/setup ] && source $stdenv/setup; " "%3%" "PATH=%4%:\"$PATH\"; " "SHELL=%5%; " "set +e; " R"s([ -n "$PS1" -a -z "$NIX_SHELL_PRESERVE_PROMPT" ] && PS1='\n\[\033[1;32m\][nix-shell:\w]\$\[\033[0m\] '; )s" "if [ \"$(type -t runHook)\" = function ]; then runHook shellHook; fi; " "unset NIX_ENFORCE_PURITY; " "shopt -u nullglob; " "unset TZ; %6%" "shopt -s execfail;" "%7%", shellEscape(tmpDir), (pure ? "" : "p=$PATH; "), (pure ? "" : "PATH=$PATH:$p; unset p; "), shellEscape(dirOf(*shell)), shellEscape(*shell), (getenv("TZ") ? (string("export TZ=") + shellEscape(getenv("TZ")) + "; ") : ""), envCommand);