Munyoki Kilyungi <m...@bonfacemunyoki.com> writes:
> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > 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. For non-sexpy programming we already have different syntaxes for Scheme, like Wisp. Those don't change the semantics of the language though.
