Because it's "a proper language" [1]. Not to mention webscale! It does seem to do some more complex stuff now that would've been annoying, but not impossible,

Because it's "a proper language" [1]. Not to mention webscale! It does seem to do some more complex stuff now that would've been annoying, but not impossible, to write as a shell script. [1]: https://github.com/nix-community/comma/pull/19 https://github.com/nix-community/comma/pull/19