Valentin Gagarin

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@domenkozar @infinisil this is ready for review.

~This is fixed already, just re-run CI.~ I'll figure this out on Monday.

- @fricklerhandwerk how to proceed with reviews? - it's a very long article - already tested successfully with two absolute beginners - just merge and fix forward? - @infinisil would...

@infinisil Thanks for the review so far. I would like to quote @thufschmitt here: > Once agreed on a general direction – merge first, bikeshed later. I love your rigorous...

@infinisil Sorry, I absolutely didn't want to sound dismissive of your comments. Proliferating the note on bike-shedding is of course driven by some frustrating experiences in the past, and it's...

@infinisil Thank you, I appreciate your input and its kind a lot! Its great that you have written out in detail the orthogonal direction of what I intended to achieve,...

Also I thought about "simple expressions" vs "functions" again, and I'm still not convinced this is a suitable dichotomy. After taking a look at the [introduction to Racket](https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/syntax-overview.html) for a...

- @infinisil if then else should be mentioned, as it is different in every language - @fricklerhandwerk if then else is not even something you see regularly, it's usually wrapped...

Case in point. And TBH I'd rather not spend years of my (or anyone's) life teaching someone the Nix language, of all things.

> If the current documentation is merged into one repository... To clarify: not all of the documentation is supposed to be merged. Only the guides to learn one's way into...