guix would like a word

sidkshatriya 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

+1, Guix is quite good with some tricks up it's sleeve compared to Nix.

I am not a fan of S-expressions but using scheme is more reasonable than nix+bash to me.

On the negative side, guix can be slow. It is also not a very pragmatic os. NixOS does non-free firmware and drivers without issue. You need to jump through some hoops for this with Guix. This is not an issue if you plan to run guix in a VM though.

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

Does guix have a flake equivalent yet?

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rowanG077 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean it's pretty wild to take s-expressions and not call them extremely terrible to read. The nix language sucks really badly, but I gladly take it over writing S-expressions.

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Pay08 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It reads almost the exact same as any functional C-style language. Not to mention that specifically for Guix, you're going to be writing the (name value) form for 99% of it.

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rowanG077 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't agree at all. Just look at these derivations: https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/src/branch/master/gnu/package...

I counted and you regularly see this: "))))))))))" at the end. This is not a language that is optimizing for being written by humans.

	▲	Pay08 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That link isn't working for me (something about AI detection), but as a point of accuracy, those aren't derivations, they're simple source files. Derivations are generated out of them. As for the closing braces, would it be better if you had a newline between each?