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by tikhonj 978 days ago
The Nix language uses whitespace in lists and I'm not the biggest fan—it works well when list elements are simple expressions (individual identifiers, numbers... etc) but gets awkward and confusing if you want to have more complex expressions. It's worse in Nix because Nix also uses whitespace for function application, so even function calls require extra parentheses, but I'm not a fan of it in any non-Lisp syntax I've used.