>As a newcomer, what lacks in the Guix documentation are concrete
examples and use cases.

continuing with the emacs example, a guixwiki.org would be awesome as an analog for emacswiki.org. User maintained, quick and short examples with lots of supporting links.

On January 15, 2019 10:36:20 AM UTC, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote:
>Dear,
>
>If I may, I would say that no manual can satisfy every reader; in
>terms of rendering (menu, color, etc.) and in terms of content (deep
>details or not, etc.).
>
>About the rendering, some of us like to browse with Emacs and
>info-mode, other prefer Web-style. There is no general pattern. :-)
>
>About the content, I agree that the GNU manuals are intimidating for
>newcomers because they are exhaustive, and the newcomers---as me---are
>lost in all the details.
>I also agree that someone often finds something in GNU manuals only if
>they knows what they is looking for.
>However, the GNU manuals are so useful once you are emancipated enough.
>:-)
>
>An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp spots well the different
>kind of reader:
>https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/Who-You-Are.html#Who-You-Are
>It appears to me really a good companion to the heavy Elisp manual. I
>mean one complements the other; depending on the reader's skills and
>on they learns.
>
>As a newcomer, what lacks in the Guix documentation are concrete
>examples and use cases. They exist but they are scattered: blog post,
>Pjotr's docs, etc.
>A section with examples should be nice, e.g., some subsection as: Guix
>for the impatient, Guix for the Web dev, Guix for the Scientific, Guix
>for Pythonista, Guix for the Conda user, etc.
From my opinion, it is in the same direction than the effort about the
>videos (current outreachy); if I am understanding well.
>
>
>All the best,
>simon

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