[kesor]

When a company is writing all of their technology and business using, lets say JavaScript. And then they come here and post about them switching to some NIH home-brewed language instead because they couldn't understand how functions or arrays work. That is not a problem with the people commenting on their stupidity.

[IshKebab]

Yeah but if everyone was saying "I don't understand how functions or arrays work in Javascript", that's a pretty solid indicator that functions and arrays are badly designed in Javascript and are unnecessarily hard to understand.

I think in some cases things are just fundamentally difficult and them being hard-to-understand is intrinsic. For example formal verification in Lean is hard to understand but I don't think Lean is badly designed.

But it's hard to see why package management is one of those things. There are soooo many ways Nix could be easier to use and understand. The language itself is unnecessarily esoteric in my experience - compared to something like Starlark for example.