From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Guix world tour Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 11:45:26 +0200 Message-ID: <87twcxpvpl.fsf@inria.fr> References: <87h9a2jlqk.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39850) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpuNr-00013P-T8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 05:45:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpuNm-00047d-OB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 05:45:34 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36183) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bpuNm-00047X-KW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 05:45:30 -0400 Received: from pluto.bordeaux.inria.fr ([193.50.110.57]:51078 helo=pluto) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bpuNk-0005ho-0g for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 05:45:28 -0400 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: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi! ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) 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=E2=80=99ve 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=E2=80= =99t attend) about the hygiene issue we have when composing gexps, and how the MetaScheme PoC implementation just doesn=E2=80=99t apply to full Scheme= with macros. He pointed me to papers about =E2=80=9Cstaged notation definition= =E2=80=9D and MacroML that I haven=E2=80=99t 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 =E2=80=9Chow do I upgrade from Nix?=E2=80=9D ;= -), and another one was the inevitable (given the venue) =E2=80=9Cwhat do you think= a static type system would bring you?=E2=80=9D. Videos should be available shortly. It was a great experience, especially chatting with Scheme/Clojure/Lisp and FP folks, famous or not! Ludo=E2=80=99.