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GNU Guix
peak hackability while also having binary downloads
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I do love it, I just wish it was easier to update package recipes. I have open patches since over a year.
Why not nix?
I ask because I've been thinking of trying Guix or Nix. I lean more towards nix due to popularity but also because theoretically a language tailored for package recipes may do better than guille.
Nix syntax is just... strange, and undiscoverable to me. Coming from a emacs/lisp background, Scheme was just easy to understand, and there was no ambiguity in contructing grammars out of thin air.
They are way different, different licences, different language, different init by default.
I like guile and shepherd much better than nix and systemd.