[conorbergin]

I wonder if well designed "mutable" operating systems like Arch and Alpine that are going to beat NixOS etc. in the long run. An install script is strictly more powerful that a declarative config language, and typically less verbose.

[Pay08]

Might as well use Guix then. You still have the declarative config language, but also a turing-complete (and convenient) programming language.

[joshmoody24]

What do you mean by strictly more powerful?

[conorbergin]

Scripts are typically turing complete, config files are typically not.