From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: Lightning talk at IPFS camp Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 22:10:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87d0jpb1ho.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ef4g2zfq.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <8cdf8d67-2b98-c6f9-e795-d507207b4e1b@fastmail.net> <87y32ff7w9.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87k1dygabn.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <874l51h8ms.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50532) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hZLCD-000187-RW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2019 16:10:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Konrad Hinsen's message of "Fri, 07 Jun 2019 15:48:09 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Konrad Hinsen Cc: Guix-devel Konrad Hinsen skribis: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > >> (They could have chosen Guile instead of a custom Lisp, but that=E2=80= =99s an >> =E2=80=9Cimplementation detail=E2=80=9D. :-)) > > From my reading of the whitepaper, no. They have pretty strict > constraints on their language because they send live code updates > to running instances and want to be able to make certain guarantees. > Guile, or any other Scheme, would be too flexible. Oh right, I had overlooked that aspect of the project. Interesting! Ludo=E2=80=99.