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The learning curve is pretty steep. It's not just a new config language, it's also letting go of many preconceptions one may have (where stuff lives on the filesystem e.g.).

As a fairly new developer I don't find the learning curve to be steep. The configuration language is a Scheme DSL and is a lot simpler to my brain than spec files or Debian-style directories.

Where stuff lives in the filesystem becomes largely irrelevant because you can treat the store as a blackbox cache. What matters is only the stuff in ~/.guix-profile/, which is very tidy and only contains the software you installed to your profile.

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