It is helpful for our beloved OS -thanks it will be helpful for app development. At present, I do not know any of groovy, scala (will learn.)
On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 01:05, Julien Lepiller <jul...@lepiller.eu> wrote: > I'll think about that. Note that we already have Groovy, as it's properly > bootstrapped :) > > Le 20 mai 2021 15:09:08 GMT-04:00, Shyam Saran <syamsaran12...@gmail.com> > a écrit : >> >> >> Many people want to move all their development work on guix >> >> example android sdk app development, yes scala, gradle, kotlin, groovy >> etc (even blockstack, ethereum) required to be packaged >> As many of you, and Julien trying this. >> >> So more than contributing code, please provide a blog post from which, >> who all want to help >> can also get guidance. >> >> >> Thanks >> >> syam >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, 19 May 2021 at 21:06, Katherine Cox-Buday < >> cox.katherin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: >>> >>> >> I think the best way to bootstrap would be to reimplement Scala in >>> > another language. I tried that too, but even the parser is crazy. >>> >>> Yes, the syntax is complex. Maybe even worse than C++ in terms of >>> parsing. I abandoned scala awhile ago, but I saw that with its latest >>> release, maybe some things got simplified. Maybe it's worth another >>> look? >>> >>> > Could you share a link to that so everyone realizes just how far you >>> > went? :-) >>> >>> Before I outright abandoned the language, I was looking into >>> bootstrapping this too. I did not go nearly as far, but was strongly >>> dissuaded by core scala contributers from even trying (to be fair, they >>> probably don't hold bootstrapping in high regard as we do). >>> >>> The only thought I have to contribute is: would it be possible to >>> bootstrap off of a binary seed, and then do what's possible to grow that >>> down to prior versions as much as possible? It's a compromise, but it at >>> least gets Guix into the scala ecosystem and provides scaffolding to >>> work off of. Of course this might run contrary to Guix's goals/needs. >>> >>> -- >>> Katherine >>> >>>
