Most of these are simple fixes and clarifications. One set of fixes will
come in the commit that actually upgrades nixpkgs and hence ruff as it
will otherwise cause errors here.
Change-Id: Ie857da0f6cf728478700ec2d24cf518f8c7b7815
currently, there is a small helper funciton in lang_util to check if
something is of a list type generic
to improve re-usability, this function is moved to utils and improved to
be also check for nested iterables and such
Change-Id: I92984daa4c4decf13d340a2ea5e52f724cee800e
helle