Re: Building a software toolchain that works

[Pjotr Prins]

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.

Pj.