On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 03:04:18PM -0500, Katherine Cox-Buday wrote: > In addition, because free software is largely developed in people's spare > time, they're going to use whatever tools make them most productive or even > just happy. They're probably not thinking about their software against the > backdrop of the larger software ecosystem.
Agree. Though I would not underestimate these people involved in creating such ecosystems. Often they are not even on Linux. When the Dlang people created dub I pointed them to Guix. Obviously I failed to convince them. > Guix solves a lot of issues, and is wonderful to use, but I don't think it > solves the most difficult issues: human issues :) It is a complex world out there if you look at the mix of operating systems and compilers/interpreters. From my point of view GNU Guix greatly simplies development and deployment - targeting Linux - at the cost of some up-front investment. It is nice when people realise that so much complexity goes away living in a Guix world. Pj.
