Re: GNU Guix 0.8.3 released

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Please don’t cross-post to the whole world (I suppose a free mail user
agent would have honored ‘Mail-Followup-To’...)

Markus Gothe <address@hidden> skribis:

> I donnu about Guile Scheme, heard from former Cygnus ppl (including Ian 
> Taylor IIRC) it was a mistake.

That sounds like hindsight from the Cygnus days, roughly the 1990s.  ;-)

I invite you to look at Guile as it is *today*.  It’s a modern
implementation of a modern language, and I dare say one that is pleasant
to work with (live programming with Geiser!).

Guix builds upon the versatility of Guile: We do things ranging from
low-level stuff (syscalls, ELF fiddling, cpio implementation) to
high-level embedded domain-specific languages (package definitions,
operating system declarations, etc.)

I think few languages/implementations would allow us to cover the whole
spectrum this conveniently.

Thanks,
Ludo’.