[anuramat]

this looks like weeks to you?

  { pkgs, ...}: {
    home.packages = with pkgs; [ neovim lazygit ];
  }

[XorNot]

This is like when people complain about the locksmith charging $300 when it takes him 15 seconds to open your door.

[anuramat]

the door wasn't even locked

[IshKebab]

Yes, absolutely. It's not quick to learn because there isn't much text.

[anuramat]

it's literally just a list

[IshKebab]

It literally isn't. There's are at least three novel syntax concepts in there, and even if you just presented the resulting JSON data, there is still a huge amount of knowledge you need to know what Nix will do with that data.

[anuramat]

novel syntax concepts? like semicolons and lambda functions?

> know what Nix will do

you would also need a lot of time to understand what exactly happens in uv/cargo/npm/apt under the hood. if this is all that matters, you should just carry binaries on a thumb drive