On Mon, Mar 06 2017, ng0 wrote:
> as I will need to develop with Java (and maybe JavaScript, although I
> know both are different languages) in the near future, I was wondering
> if there are already people in our community using GuixSD as their
> development environment for this.

I haven't done much Java development since moving to GuixSD
(coincidentally, not because of GuixSD), but I have tried to
write/compile some small things and it was a pain. Things should be a
fair bit easier now that we have some certificates in icedtea@3.

> If you are using it, could you share some insights on workflow and
> specific things you had to change compared to Debian, Gentoo and other
> systems?

It's mostly similar to what I used to do under Debian. The main thing is
that I have had to install maven from the official binary distribution
rather than through my package manager. Once I have maven installed I'm
able to do everything I'm used to with it.

Carlo