Looking at Nix internals would, over at the Guix land, be more like looking at the Guile compiler, or garbage collector -- all Nix-the-tool implements is the language and the primitive derivation machinery. Could certainly be educational, but neither is nor should be required of anyone _using_ the abstraction in question.

Do you have any more deliberate obtuseness to share, or shall we stop?

> Looking at Nix internals would, over at the Guix land, be more like looking at the Guile compiler, or garbage collector

huh? nope. looking at guix internals would just mean looking up guile documentation :)