Marketing Team: Can we present Nix/NixOS better?

[domenkozar]

@tbenst

The nix language itself is a major barrier to adoption. The fundamental choices are fantastic, e.g. laziness, file type, etc., but the error messages are often incomprehensible, the standard library is anything but, and the syntax/keywords are, well, unique. I won’t repeat the well-known critiques that started Guix in the first place as this ship has long sailed. But I do think it’s productive to look at Rust’s 2017 roadmap and what they achieved in 2017.

I’m glad you found out about the error messages proposal and there’s the first PR with new formatting.

We’re looking for individuals and companies that care about ergonomics of Nix to help with donations