On Mon, 14 Mar 2022, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> wrote: > I can't believe that mess that is Rust cargo and npm packages today, > for example. And they start out as the next new thing to solve all > problems! If they would only would have used Guix to create a coherent > build system... > > And then I spent a week's effort on a CMake build system, and CMake is > an ugly piece ofp work. I just kept thinking that if Guix was > leveraged you could have a really simple build generator written in > Lisp... Now wouldn't that be nice!
I dream of a build system 100% in Scheme that integrates itself natively with Guix. No more Makefile, nor auto-nighmares or bloated package managers that like NPM. Just a simple self describing Scheme record in a human readable file that is easily trackabled in Git. I've made something like this for a project of mine. Generating a Makefile from a description of the projects using Scheme. However, I believe now that the true power would be to have everything done in Scheme instead. On another note, what I find fascinating is why Guix and Nix are not more used in academic papers. A quick search on the Compendex database gives me only a handful of papers referencing Guix, mostly all from Ludovic. I simply can't understand this. You have a way to factor out the toolchain from the equation of your research's resuls -- making it trivial to reproduce -- and yet every papers that I read is using some Ubuntu LTS or Fedora as their build and testing environment. The same applies for embedded systems. Why waste time with Yocto, Elbe, Buildroot anymore? -- Olivier Dion Polymtl
