From the discussion on the programmer forum lobste.rs: I just started a NixOS project and briefly considered Guix instead. I went with Nix entirely because it’s more popular, which means there’s more AI training material for it. I don’t intend to ever program in Nix myself so while I’d prefer Scheme conceptually, it’s not a big thing for me. OTOH everyone loves the Guix docs, that’s a point in its favor for AI usability. Joey Hess seems to have been right with his recent comment that LLMs promote using things like configuration languages that are worse for understanding.