alt Hacker NewsThat's not the compliment that you think it is...
(I say this as somebody who deeply loves the concepts in most functional languages, and loves the concepts in nix, but recognises that the developer-experience of both is about as pleasant as reading somebody else's code-golfed perl)
It isn’t a compliment, just a fact. Of course it all depends on what you are familiar with, but that is a fact about you, not Nix.
The concepts in functional languages are not fully realized in any multi-paradigm languages. So you can admire all you want, but don’t knock it until you’ve actually tried it.