From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Guix world tour Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:02:34 +0200 Message-ID: <87k2dtsfpx.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87h9a2jlqk.fsf@gnu.org> <87twcxpvpl.fsf@inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53766) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpxSm-0002RD-L8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 09:02:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpxSi-0003h2-8A for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 09:02:52 -0400 In-reply-to: <87twcxpvpl.fsf@inria.fr> 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: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Courtès 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