Re: Language-specific guides for using "guix shell"

[indieterminacy]

On 2024-10-02 20:32, Omar Bassam wrote:
> Hi jgart,
>
> I am kind of new to Guix and I am struggling to find resources
> forlanguage specific recipes like you mentioned.
>
> I started a project https://lisp-spectrum.org/ where I try to document
> my struggles with the Lisp Ecosystemin general (Guix included).

Cool!

Its worth pointing out the Lisp dialect, TXR
https://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-lisp.html

FWIW, here are some of my notes:
https://git.sr.ht/~indieterminacy/?search=3q+txr


> For every Lisp, I try to include a guix manifest to make the
> instructions reproducible and I plan to add guides
>
> on how to work with guix on many levels (OS, home and shell) for each
> language.
>
> I'm only doing this project for Lisp dialects for now, but I can
> definitely see the benefit of having the same thing for other
> languages as well.
>
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 at 23:20, Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Moving the discussion to guix-devel.
> >
> > "jgart" <jgart@dismail.de> writes:
> >
> > > what do people think of having language specific guides for using
> > > `guix shell` with particular programming languages?
> > >
> > > not unlike this Nix guide that shows how to use Python in a `nix
> > > shell` to develop on a flask application:
> > >
> > > https://nix.dev/guides/recipes/python-environment.html
> >
> > I believe such guides would be quite helpful.  Perhaps Guix Cookbook
> > would be the appropriate place for it?
> >
> > > would be cool to document the expected workflow for a Guix user
> > using
> > > jpm and guix to develop on janet software, for example.
> >
> > As someone curious about JPM, such a guide would be of practical
> > interest to me.
> >
> > --
> > Suhail

Happy hacking!


Jonathan