If Guix were an optimal solution, many companies would be using it, but that's not happening. It's just a niche experiment. And parentheses don't seem so bad when the code is one line, when tens or hundreds of lines won't be so fun.

HPC under Inria. Giving how young Guix is, lots of companies rely on it.

>Tens or hundreds

You never wrote a single line or Scheme or Common Lisp and it shows.

No one writes thousands of nested lines down. They modularize it into functions because Lisp was basically made literally for that.

Get some Emacs modules and code, such as Mastodon.el. Look at the source code. Far easier to understand than any C or C++ codebase, not to mention Rust.