[chungy]

Guix solves the same problem in similar ways, though it uses Scheme as its configuration language.

[drdexebtjl]

Sadly it doesn't work on macOS, unlike Nix.

[pkulak]

Or hardware.

[sham1]

It absolutely works with hardware. And it's not that difficult to add channels for extra software like a tainted Linux kernel.

And in return one gets a saner programming language than the Nix language.