Guix for Development

Guix looks really tempting to me because i find guile scheme so much more pleasant than nix. But i heard there are not that many packages in Guix. I wonder if some sort of transpiler from nix derivations to guix package definitions would be possible.

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heavyset_go 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

This is where I'm at after using Nix for a few years for different use cases. I never want to write it again, and would welcome a Scheme over Nix.

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whompyjaw an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Im with you. As an emacsen, i feel it’s natural for me to use Guix, but nix is so so much more popular… :/

	▲	digiown 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Guix being a GNU project the purism also doesn't help. Just look at this: https://github.com/nonguix/nonguix I don't even disagree that nonfree software is bad, but blaming the users who often have no choice in the matter (e.g. drivers) is the wrong way to go.

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pmarreck 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

both guix and nix are 1000% better for setting up and managing per-project deps deterministically

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davexunit an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Always interesting to see an older article come back around. I could probably update this a bit for 2026 but my workflow is just about the same now as it was then. Guix is good and just released 1.5.0, check it out.

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arikrahman 23 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Honestly I'm just glad that this declarative approach is steadily being realized. It hasn't hit mainstream adoption yet, but it gives me hope that this headline is making the rounds.

Docker is, as the article describes, just a bandaid and the symptom of unthoughful development foundations.

In the long term, Guix may win out. Probably not in my life time though. But it's a win for developers, and nix really isn't so bad with everyone vibecoding away it's complexity anyways.