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How would you compare Nix with Guix? Do you see the latter replacing the former?
by Dracophoenix 5y ago
How would you compare Nix with Guix? Do you see the latter replacing the former?
- KingMachiavelli 5y agoI only briefly looked at Guix. I think there is an arguement that it has a better language. Besides that I'm not sure what one gains compared to NixOS. Overall Guix looked nice but it is very opinionated on the free-software issue which really hurts its adoptability. It is also a niche sibling of an already niche distro so I doubt it would be used in (real) production any time soon. The community & related projects around NixOS are also very compelling. Structured flakes like devos [1] and developer tools like direnv/nix-shell make getting started very easy. I'm not sure if the same can be said about Guix (I'll admit I having been keeping a close eye on it). The darwin (MacOS) compatability is also a huge selling point since a lot of MacOS developers already need tools like Homebrew. [1] https://github.com/divnix/devos https://github.com/divnix/devos
- Dracophoenix 5y agoJust to note,a brief look and a close eye aren't exactly the same thing. I agree that, at this stage Guix will have as much success as Hurd does in becoming a production ready system. But I do think there might be some form of borrowing between the Nix and Guix. In my case however, I'd rather have an Arch-based system with NixOS's clean architecture.