Re: Building a software toolchain that works

[Oliver Propst <oliver.propst@fripost.org>]

On 2022-03-18 07:27, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 03:04:18PM -0500, Katherine Cox-Buday wrote:
>> In addition, because free software is largely developed in people's 
>> spare time, they're going to use whatever tools make them most 
>> productive or even just happy. They're probably not thinking about 
>> their software against the backdrop of the larger software ecosystem.
> 
> Agree. Though I would not underestimate these people involved in
> creating such ecosystems. Often they are not even on Linux. When the
> Dlang people created dub I pointed them to Guix. Obviously I failed to
> convince them.
> 
>> Guix solves a lot of issues, and is wonderful to use, but I don't 
>> think it solves the most difficult issues: human issues :)
> 
> It is a complex world out there if you look at the mix of operating
> systems and compilers/interpreters. From my point of view GNU Guix
> greatly simplies development and deployment - targeting Linux - at the
> cost of some up-front investment. It is nice when people realise that
> so much complexity goes away living in a Guix world.

Very interesting notes. And well don' think there is an understatement 
what so-ever that I basically agree with points here :)

*I mean just was stated during the Guix online days a few weeks ago I 
think its "simplicity"  that makes Guix such interesting and attractive 
project. And something which in turn I guess makes us motivated to 
contribute and further spread the knowledge about the power of Guix (and 
free software in general for that matter).

-- 
Kinds regards Oliver Propst
https://twitter.com/Opropst