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.