Guix for Development
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5 days ago
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| dthompson.us
| HN
smnplk
29 minutes ago
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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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whompyjaw
24 minutes ago
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Im with you. As an emacsen, i feel it’s natural for me to use Guix, but nix is so so much more popular… :/
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digiown
11 minutes ago
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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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davexunit
31 minutes ago
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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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pmarreck
1 hour ago
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both guix and nix are 1000% better for setting up and managing per-project deps deterministically
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