> The idea that you can easily type a command and be quickly dumped into a development environment for some software your system runs is amazing. I think it’s s

> The idea that you can easily type a command and be quickly dumped into a development environment for some software your system runs is amazing. I think it’s something that actually brings people closer towards some of the ideals of GNU This is exactly right, and I think it's one of the coolest things about Guix. Guix System (the full OS based on Guix) seems almost like the GNU that was dreamt of before Linux. It even has an option built on the Hurd kernel, and it uses an init system and initrd images based on Guile Scheme, which is both the language used for Guix itself and as the extension language for GNU projects. Guix definitely advances the whole > Learn one simple, high-level language and you can hack on every aspect of your system idea further than we've seen on any modern/contemporary system. > Aside: I think this is also great about Emacs; you can easily jump to the source of most things and there’s usually a way to hack or modify or inspect or debug them immediately I think Emacs is definitely an inspiration, or a model of the virtues intended.