Guix looks really cool. I wish that it used Lisp rather than Scheme (because IMNSHO Lisp is better-suited to this kind of system software), but that ship has s

Guix looks really cool. I wish that it used Lisp rather than Scheme (because IMNSHO Lisp is better-suited to this kind of system software), but that ship has sailed. It’s a real shame that rms had such a dislike of Common Lisp. The mind boggles at where the cutting edge of computing would be today had Emacs upgraded from Elisp to Common Lisp twenty or thirty years ago. Instead GNU has spent 27 years trying to turn Scheme into a sufficient systems programming language, once again illustrating the truth of Greenspun’s Tenth Law: Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. I would add a corollary: this also applies to any sufficiently complicated Scheme program.