Re: Guix world tour

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi!
>
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>
>> I had the pleasant surprise to be invited to give a talk about Guix at
>> the Scheme Workshop in September in Japan:
>>
>>   http://scheme2016.snow-fort.org/
>>
>> While I was at it, I submitted another talk to the Commercial(!) Users
>> of Functional Programming conference, which was accepted:
>>
>>   http://cufp.org/2016/
>
> I just came back and I’ve put the slides at:
>
>   https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/help/#talks
>
> Apart from the usual overview, the Scheme Workshop talk covered mainly
> staging and G-expressions.  There were ~30 people; I think it was pretty
> well received.
>
> After the talk, I chatted with Oleg Kiselyov (who unfortunately didn’t
> attend) about the hygiene issue we have when composing gexps, and how
> the MetaScheme PoC implementation just doesn’t apply to full Scheme with
> macros.  He pointed me to papers about “staged notation definition” and
> MacroML that I haven’t yet taken the time to investigate.
>
> The CUFP talk was in this very nice room with 60 people or so.  I
> focused on why and how we use Scheme extensively, explicitly comparing
> to Nix{,OS}, which the majority of the attendance already knew.  Among
> the questions I had, one was “how do I upgrade from Nix?” ;-), and
> another one was the inevitable (given the venue) “what do you think a
> static type system would bring you?”.
>
> Videos should be available shortly.
>
> It was a great experience, especially chatting with Scheme/Clojure/Lisp
> and FP folks, famous or not!

Woo, that sounds great!  I’m looking forward to the videos!

~~ Ricardo