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fake-nameyesterday at 3:49 AM1 replyview on HN

I mean, that's a distinction without a difference.

I've not written nix, but javascript is a ugly, terrible language. It would make sense that if nix derives from it (whyyyyyy) it would also be terrible.


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bspammeryesterday at 10:05 AM

I disagree with GP, it’s much more like Haskell than JavaScript. Function application is whitespace, functions can only have one argument, everything is an expression, let blocks are the way you define and scope variables. I see very little relation to JavaScript at all, to be honest.

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