Re: Language-specific guides for using "guix shell"

[indieterminacy <indieterminacy@libre.brussels>]

On 2024-10-02 20:32, Omar Bassam wrote:
> Hi jgart,
> 
> I am kind of new to Guix and I am struggling to find resources
> forlanguage specific recipes like you mentioned.
> 
> I started a project https://lisp-spectrum.org/ where I try to document
> my struggles with the Lisp Ecosystemin general (Guix included).
> 

Cool!

Its worth pointing out the Lisp dialect, TXR
https://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-lisp.html

FWIW, here are some of my notes:
https://git.sr.ht/~indieterminacy/?search=3q+txr


> For every Lisp, I try to include a guix manifest to make the
> instructions reproducible and I plan to add guides
> 
> on how to work with guix on many levels (OS, home and shell) for each
> language.
> 
> I'm only doing this project for Lisp dialects for now, but I can
> definitely see the benefit of having the same thing for other
> languages as well.
> 
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 at 23:20, Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Moving the discussion to guix-devel.
>> 
>> "jgart" <jgart@dismail.de> writes:
>> 
>>> what do people think of having language specific guides for using
>>> `guix shell` with particular programming languages?
>>> 
>>> not unlike this Nix guide that shows how to use Python in a `nix
>>> shell` to develop on a flask application:
>>> 
>>> https://nix.dev/guides/recipes/python-environment.html
>> 
>> I believe such guides would be quite helpful.  Perhaps Guix Cookbook
>> would be the appropriate place for it?
>> 
>>> would be cool to document the expected workflow for a Guix user
>> using
>>> jpm and guix to develop on janet software, for example.
>> 
>> As someone curious about JPM, such a guide would be of practical
>> interest to me.
>> 
>> --
>> Suhail

Happy hacking!


Jonathan