Hi Csepp! Csepp <raingl...@riseup.net> anaandika:
> jgart <jg...@dismail.de> writes: > >> Hi Guixers, >> >> I just wanted to share this presentation that Singpolyma gave titled "Guix >> Without Scheme": >> >> https://archive.org/details/singpolyma-guix-without-scheme >> >> Through the course of the presentation, singpolyma demos how to build >> a Guix package with javascript as well as lua. >> >> What do people think of leveraging Guile's compiler tower to write Guix >> packages in lua, javascript, python, and other languages? >> >> nix perhaps? Might be meta fun to write a Guix package in a guile >> implemented nix frontend. >> >> Maybe we should think of Scheme as just one frontend among many to Guile's >> compiler tower? >> >> Is it a future goal for Guix to fully support this unique feature? >> >> all best, >> >> jgart > > I like Lua but this doesn't seem to be a wise use of developer > resources. Those languages have subtle differences that would surface > if this idea was pursued further. The most obvious one: Scheme is very > permissive with what you can name your variables, while all the others > basically follow C's restrictions. How would you map those names? It > is not possible to create a bijection between sets of different > cardinality. And then we haven't gotten into how the module systems are > different or how record systems aren't even standardized among Schemes. > > If you want to experiment with mixing languages, Racket is likely a > better starting point. > Using other languages, if simple enough, would be a nice way to have developers who fear the parens dip their toe in GNU Guix using Guile. Nice for intro workshops/talks - maybe. That said - and from a very biased view - I think Scheme is simple enough for anyone, and outside hobby or exploratory programming, should be primarily used for GNU Guix hacking. Perhaps, over time that may change. -- (Life is like a pencil that will surely run out, but will leave the beautiful writing of life.) (D4F09EB110177E03C28E2FE1F5BBAE1E0392253F (hkp://keys.gnupg.net))
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