Comment by uludag

I think this may be just due to unfamiliarity. Like, if that mess you shared was written as follows:

  {
    start: makeForkexecConstructor(["…/bin/ntpd", "-n", "-c", "/…/…-ntpd.conf", "-u", "ntpd", "-g"]),
    logFile: "/var/log/ntpd.log"
  }

this wouldn't bat an eye. Even though I've never used Guile, just familiarity with Elisp makes that example pretty straightforward. Lisp-adjacent people would all pretty quickly grok this I presume.

And I think it's also hard to claim that one is better than the other. I personally have gotten my feet wet with Guix and I would love the time to become more familiar it.