Dear Poplin, On 2026-04-16 09:45, poplin wrote:
As a person living in France my first reaction was (and still is) a huge happiness... but immediately the questions you mentioned Simon popped up. It would insightful to understand if the fact of not choosing guix was deliberate or just ignorance about its existance.
Ive been in the situation, where talking with an Inria academic focused on Prolog and they had no idea about Guix.
From my perspective, Guix is at the forefront of my mind when I think about France (which delights me, given the issues I outlined regarding France in my previous theadpost).
There is a bit of a cliche about France in terms of them being proud of their contributions to the world (which I get and encourage). It bothers me that such cultural references appear a little trapped looking back. For one thing, ignoring local hero(ine)s does future generations a disservice (the UK got a lot out of the 80s pioneers being celebrated, particularly for video games later on).
However, such gripes arent as bad compared to Belgium (AES); or Ireland (Boyle; Boole; Hamilton) - Ill leave such reasoning open.
Kind regards, Jonathan
