Why everything is inflated and bloated? It is foundational to our computer systems.* There is alternative way, functional programming, that is much harder to learn than Object-Oriented, but makes cleaner code without side effects. So Six/NixOS is very promising and going to install it when I have learned Haskell first to understand it's foundations more deeply.
> when I have learned Haskell first to understand it's foundations more deeply
Nix is nothing like Haskell.
Also, the functional and lazy nature if Nix is not an ideological decision, it's a necessity when you have a giant monorepo config for 200000 packages. (Without laziness you'd have to wait for an hour just to evaluate the config options.)
But thank you for insights, I have learned Haskell basics and in awe already. Maybe "functional code is going to fix the world" not the full truth when I get more experienced ;-)
Check out Midwestern Doctor blog posts. Seems to turn every possible stone to get healthy results. Changed my thinking a lot https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/
* "Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?" https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/359576.359579