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by IshKebab 81 days ago
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.
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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