Guile and Guix is way better documented than Nix. The language have more features, so you don't have to use a hack to load packages, can actually know what is accepted in a function instead of blindly copying what others do, and it comes with a formatter.
I think the language is harder but more powerful than Nix's.
Imo a better manual and examples would help a lot.
I'd say one of the biggest issues is the one with proprietary drivers - you can't really find examples and guides on how to get drivers working because it's kept hush-hush, and to install them yourself requires knowledge on how to set things up, knowledge which beginner users don't have ofc.
I'm a big fan of Guix and Guile but atm I couldn't switch over due to this.
Actually the proprietary driver setup is easy. The issue, at least for me is having to deal with a long wait time for building drivers. And besides, I'm not really well educated on how to build kernels. Perhaps, we could strip the useless parts and only include the drivers available exclusively in our system, which could speed up the build. And yes, the language is pretty good, almost similar to OCaml, which I like a lot. And it also fixes the issue of having to deal with external scripts, because personally I like uniformity. Nix package is contaminated with Python, Shell and Ruby script, which is something I don't appreciate.
There is a pre built distribution, you need to configure binary cache to get it. Refer to the "Substitute for nonguix" section: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix
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