It's been a while since I'm working on the version 4 of #FG42. I've decided to ditch straight.el in favour of #Nix. So far, it's been working well, and I kinda like the design. If you like nix and want to have a nix/emacs based editor, give it a shot:
https://sr.ht/~lxsameer/FG42/
It's not fully finished yet but early feedback will be appreciated.
#Emacs #editor
I never gave up on #nix, so I might not be qualified to answer this. But I found the language excellent. It's a special purpose language, and it does what it is supposed to be doing very well. I saw people trying to compare it with python and such which, IMO it's a poor comparison. It's just lambda calculus, and the way it handles the paths and derivation is brilliant. I think people tend to complain before gaining a full understanding of the language.
I consider myself a Lisper, but I have to say, Nix is better suited for this than scheme.
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