@anderscs depending on what you're evaluating, but the answer is "not in general". Nix works in general.
@jonn
Agreed, but I would want better tooling to minimize unnecessary data and dependencies. I'm working on Nix.lean to give dependent types and better introspection to nix expressions.
@anderscs omg! You should talk to @johnburnham !!!
@anderscs @johnburnham I say!