Hi Pjotr, > I have a feeling they won't be that interested ;).
Depends on who and when. My idea is not to send them a mail saying, "look, we have a great idea, you should us it!". It's rather to open issues on their build systems to suggest features and actually help with the implementations. Good old proselytism ;-) It's a long-term strategy, not a quick fix project. > Industry appears to go the other way. There are several initiatives to > speed up Rust through caching and storing compiled items in the > cloud(?!). Then it's time to intervene before it's too late ;-) There is a clear momentum building up for reproducibility. Few people argue nowadays that it doesn't matter. It's more like "would be nice, but it's too difficult/complicated". That's where Guix can help: as a demonstration of possibility. And once your builds are reproducible, you can safely cache them in the cloud! The next message to get across is the need for cross-language build systems. The idea of one language, one platform doesn't work any more. Real software systems need to mix languages, even runtimes. And it's not just X + C any more either. Again, Guix serves as the proof of concept, even for people who dislike some specific implementation aspect of Guix. Cheers, Konrad.
