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Not as bad as the guix crowd IMO. They're like the nix/Rust "just use XYZ" crowd but also combined with the GNU zealots so you get the perfect overlap of annoyi
by packetlost 5y ago
Not as bad as the guix crowd IMO. They're like the nix/Rust "just use XYZ" crowd but also combined with the GNU zealots so you get the perfect overlap of annoying software purists.
Really, I like the idea and I actually like the fact that they use Guile (scheme) instead of a home-built DSL, but guix is a horrible, poorly documented, doesn't work even on the happy path mess.
- rekado 5y ago"poorly documented" is a new one for me. It's got one of the best manuals out there. A little short on examples maybe, but there's a separate cookbook with tutorials, and lots of blog posts. But maybe I'm just a "GNU zealot".
- packetlost 5y agoThe documentation appears good, until you fall off the already very narrow happy-path to just get things working. I can't even get the hello-world program to work following the instructions exactly on a clean Ubuntu VM. I didn't mean to imply everyone who uses it is a GNU zealot, but there's definitely a subset who are.
- sph 5y agoI honestly never heard anyone on HN recommending Guix over Nix.
- packetlost 5y agoI'm explicitly not recommending it. I want to like it, but it doesn't give me any reason to
- robertlagrant 5y agoNever heard of guix til now. An annoying piece of software with a cult-like following does sound up my street, though.
- b1n 5y agoNew GUIX user here. I've found the documentation to be good and the "zealots" seem very friendly - maybe take another look.