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You can install Nix in a totally unprivileged fashion, without having to use hacks such as PRoot, you just need to configure it to use a directory you have write access to instead …

Well... This is a sort of whitespace sensitivity, and I don't really like it, because that means that some tokens may or may not be meaningful depending on the context, which incre…

Thanks, it should be fixed now

I see. But that means using a whitespace-sensitive syntax, which some people (including me ;) ) don't really like

For your last point, you don't have to use the channels (which will anyway be deprecated at some point iirc), and you can pin the nixpkgs version in your nix files (like it is done…

The only place where I think we could make the semicolons optional is at the end of a let-binding or a record (like json does iirc), which would indeed be a small but blessed chang…

My tool could, but (for now, at least) it is a separate project from the main Nix interpreter, and this one is notably slow to evolve

You might be interested in dhall[0] and dhal-to-nix[1] which provides a really neat haskell-like language that compiles to nix. [0]: https://github.com/Gabriel439/Haskell-Dhall-Lib…

Unfortunately no, except maybe for some very minor tweaks that have a chance to be included in vanilla nix, but otherwise this would most probably either mean the death of this pro…

Hi, author here. While I agree that the language could be improved, I wonder why you say that this makes it uglier, and how you'd imagine a better solution (this is still in develo…