From: Distopico <distopico@riseup.net>
To: Wilko Meyer <w@wmeyer.eu>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Guix and the developer ecosystem
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2023 20:40:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87leeqmf8g.fsf@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o7jrg9ih.fsf@wmeyer.eu>
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On 2023-07-31, Wilko Meyer <w@wmeyer.eu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Distopico <distopico@riseup.net> writes:
>
>> 2. Do you see developers as a potential target audience for Guix, or is
>> it mainly focused on HPC (High-Performance Computing)?
>
> Developers is a pretty broad and generic term to start with. Considering
> Guix is somewhat of a general purpose package manager/Guix System a
> general purpose distribution, I think the better question to ask,
> instead of asking for target audiences, is, how and in what way Guix
> features and concepts can aid and help with hacking on software. HPC is
> an area where Guix can be put to good use, but it's also a reasoanble
> choice for other areas as well I'd argue.
>
I believe one area for improvement is the possibility of having tools
and the compiler sharing common ground. For example, rust-1.6 with
rust-analyzer-1.6 with version 20220809 and rust-1.7 with
rust-analyzer-1.7 with version 20230911. In that case, similar to
rustup, we could do guix shell rust@1.6.8 rust-analyzer@20230911. In
Haskell, a similar issue occurs, where haskell-language-server, e.g.,
version 1.3, only works with specific GHC versions.
> IMHO Guix has plenty of useful features that, in my opinion, can be put
> to good use in the process of developing software. I *mostly* work with
> C and Rust, as well as Perl, and less frequently, Python and CommonLisp;
> so my experience with Guix is mostly limited to these languages.
>
How is your workflow with rust? I mean you use --container to just
download `rustup` and install it in the container?
> Using a guix.scm file for projects to provide a good way to spin up a
> development environment fast/to onboard new people, and make use of guix
> shell (mostly with --container) while working on software; are probably
> my most used features in that regards.
>
I do that as well, but in mostly of the cases just for me because other
team member can use it due is Gnu/Linux only, could be good have
something like emacs cross-platform.
> Best Regards,
>
Thank you for the reponse.
> Wilko Meyer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-05 1:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-27 0:29 Guix and the developer ecosystem Distopico
2023-07-29 19:48 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-08-05 1:11 ` Distopico
2023-08-05 17:29 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-08-05 19:48 ` (
2023-08-05 20:12 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-08-08 16:59 ` Saku Laesvuori
2023-07-31 9:42 ` (
2023-08-05 1:49 ` Distopico
2023-08-05 6:10 ` Julien Lepiller
2023-07-31 18:55 ` Wilko Meyer
2023-08-05 1:40 ` Distopico [this message]
2023-08-16 14:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-08-18 17:16 ` Distopico
2023-08-24 15:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-08-29 18:42 ` Distopico
2023-08-19 8:29 ` Simon Tournier
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