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throwamon on Sept 2, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: We want to make Nix better

Although it's debatable, it's very common for functional languages to be categorized as declarative.

gavinhoward on Sept 3, 2022 [–]

Perhaps, but that categorization is going to confuse a lot of developers. It sure confused me until I said something wrong, and all of you Nix proponents descended on me.

This confusion is not good for Nix.

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