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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Did they fixed the kernel panic problem that persisted in the last two versions? I don't dare to try it, last month their proprietary driver has almost destroyed my machine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Because it gives the wrong impression that it is not proprietary, just like how you are making this exact mistake.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

You can use Nix on Guix System and vice versa, but it's like installing them as a package manager on a foreign system. The store and packages currently are completely isolated between the two, although there's a very early plan for a common store interface.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

No, monadic interface is used to programmatically access the store instead of being used to define packages. Packages are pure in Guix.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Guix uses Guile everywhere. Nix uses string interpolated Bash and Perl for anything impure.

Now what do you think?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Fyi, it's now available on nixos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Nobody has mentioned that Guix is readily available on NixOS right now? Add a line to your config and it's ready to go. Compatible with everything else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Typst. Much easier to setup and learn than TeX based solutions with similar capabilities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think there's no need to stick with one particular language. It benefits to learn more languages and bring the "good parts" of their design into your code whatever you are writing it in.

Btw It happens that I've learned a bit of RISC-V, with Rust.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'd say no. Programming safely requires non-trivial transformation in code and a radical change in style, which afaik cannot be easily done automated.

Do you think that there's any chance to convert from this to this? It requires understanding of the algorithm and a thorough rewrite. Automated tools can only generate the former one because it must not change C's crooked semantics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Well, they are not going to release in between, but their rewrite still "works" at each commit being a hybrid of Rust and C++.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)
  1. breaks compatibility
  2. breaks compatibility
  3. breaks compatibility
  4. hard to add without breaking compatibility

Then we arrive at Rust as a natural outcome.

And it's of course possible to migrate to Rust from C or C++ progressively, fish has almost got it done.

 

Not exactly a new one but I think this sub deserves some activity.

People at Spritely Institute are working on compiling Guile to WebAssembly, and they have made some progress now.

Their project repository

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