Hi, On Mon, 24 Oct 2022 at 20:40, Wojtek Kosior via <help-guix@gnu.org> wrote:
> Out of curiosity - what are the problems between Guix and JS? When I > read this my first suspicion was that maybe TS is a self-hosted > language and cannot be bootstrapped. However, when I ran `guix search > typescript`, it revealed the existence of some TS->JS compiler called > 'rust-swc'. So I guess problems lie somewhere else, right? Nothing per se. Note that «TypeScript is a strongly typed programming language that builds on JavaScript» and from my understanding (maybe I am wrong?), it is hard to package Javascript for Guix because the Javascript ecosystem is messy. Janneke provides some explanations [1] and I am not convinced the situation have changed since then. Maybe I am wrong… 1: <https://yhetil.org/guix/87fudzndu7....@gnu.org> Cheers, simon