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I used both Guix and Nix and found both their languages okay for the use-case.

Nix was slightly better, since it's easier to format automatically than Lisp.

>Easier to format automatically than Lisp

You wish. Emacs did that for free since the 80's.

Yes, I found init.el even more straight forward than nix and even home packages.

Emacs has Geiser to edit Scheme/Guile code with ease. For sure Emacs users know how to handle Scheme which is just another Lisp (even MIT Scheme bundles an old Emacs release) and have at least partial knowledge of Common Lisp (and being able to grasp it in minutes).

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