Probably because it received upvotes recently?

This isn’t goofy, this is an extremely diffused “pattern” when you need to use non dynamic number sequences.

Flakes are extremely simple (my whole system is a flake: https://github.com/cmargiotta/dotfiles ), but they are basically not documented.

The grammar is really really bad, I prefere a lot the Guix one too! I am using NixOS only because the last time I tried Guix I didn’t find a lot of packages for their extremist GNU policy (I agree, but I need some packages), is it still like that?

NixOS, I have a fetish for configuration files

gcc and clang are open source, you can read their source code whenever you want!

Actually compilers are more complex than operative systems, and incredibly they are built using compilers.