GNU Guix launches

GNU Guix launches

Posted Nov 26, 2012 10:07 UTC (Mon) by oever (subscriber, #987)
Parent article: GNU Guix launches

A presentation on Guix which lists the reasons to not use Nix:

so what’s the point of Guix?

• keeping Nix’s build & deployment model
• using Scheme as the packaging language
• adding GNU hackers to the mix

why Guile Scheme instead of the Nix language?

• because it rocks!
• because it’s GNU!
• it has a compiler, Unicode, gettext, libraries, etc.
• it supports embedded DSLs via macros
• can be used both for composition and build scripts

I do not know Nix well enough to know if these improvements justify not using plain Nix.

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