After more than a year of running #NixOS for work and on my personal machine, I've come back to Guix on said personal machine.
My experience with writing expressions, flakes and shells has taught me a lot. #Guix expressions (gexps) make a lot more sense.
It would be an oversimplification to say that gexps are like build scripts. Build scripts are a lot more simple than using Guile, but it is sinking in.
Here's an example:
https://paste.sr.ht/~trevdev/e49b3e8cdef871b7674519e5aa9f29de6ada238a
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