On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 10:03:30AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > I am really impressed with GUIX, and I think it is a no-brainer to use > > a real functional programming language for this.
I was imprecise here. It is my first real foray into LISP. What I meant is that it is great to use a real programming language with the most important functional characteristics of recursion and anonymous functions :) I believe much of Nix could be greatly simplified if they had opted for this route. Did you see NixOS is speeding up the ranks in distrowatch? I bet that is partly due to GUIX. > > Thanks Ludo and > > others! I just wish I could use GUIX on servers where I don't have (and > > won't get) root access. Or is there a way? With Nix I could run as a > > normal user. > > It???s the same as Nix, which means that if the daemon cannot run as root, > then it???s usable in a ???degraded??? mode (info "(guix) Build Environment > Setup"). That is good news. Anyone here using it as such? Pj.
