What's the goal here? As a Nix[OS] user for a couple years now, the underlying Nix impl is not really on my radar for personal problems i have with Nix. It's entirely about the language and (lack of) language-tooling. I write typed systems on purpose during my day/hobby programming, and dynamic untyped experiences are just no fun for me personally. Nickel is far more interesting to me on my checklist of UX issues. Ki…
It's easier to find motivated Open Source contributors to a Rust project than a C++ project. It's also easier to integrate with a Rust project, reusing parts of it to make language tooling.