avakand
So not much is going to change, I think. Hell, McDonalds is even open in DNR/LNR "republics" under the name "DonMac".
Some of this problems can be aleviated with good IDE support or language server.
I agree that language is too simple. Also I think some degree of IDE / language server support would help a lot. Refactoring modules, writing and importing custom functions was a bad experience for me - some arcane stacktraces were common, using repl was too verbose and with no clear way to debug whole configuration.
Debugging it was a real pain though - I was trying to write (or copy from someone else config) a function to recursively import all modules from a folder and the error messages were hard to understand with stacktraces ending somewhere deep in standard library.
The other problem was with nixpkgs, i.e. I haven't found a clear list of packages that were going to be updated. Jetbrains IDEA was updating very slowly and when I wanted to pin a version of it simply overriding version variable in the overlay was not enough - there were also some other linked variables. Emacs package from custom overlay constantly tried to compile itself, requiring me to check build status on hydra build system.
In the end I decided that it's not really worth it. I don't have many systems and services to manage and for a raspberry pi and a vps multiple docker-compose.yaml files in git repo is enough. I think Henrik Lissner (author of Doom Emacs) wrote a really good piece about why someone should choose to use NixOS - https://github.com/hlissner/dotfiles#frequently-asked-questi...