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What does guix have to do with Nix (genuine question, not snarky)?

• hprotagonist 2y ago
  same idea, but in a scheme.
• busterarm 2y ago
  Guix was based on Nix.
• ddellacosta 2y ago
  It's a bit hidden in their about page: GNU Guix provides state-of-the-art package management features such as transactional upgrades and roll-backs, reproducible build environments, unprivileged package management, and per-user profiles. It uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, but packages are defined as native Guile modules, using extensions to the Scheme language—which makes it nicely hackable. https://guix.gnu.org/en/about/ https://guix.gnu.org/en/about/
  • brabel 2y ago
    If I understand correctly, they're saying that the low level stuff works the way it works in Nix, not that they use Nix for that. I am aware Guix did fork Nix but from what I've read, there's almost nothing left in Guix that still uses the initial Nix code?
    • jbboehr 2y ago
      I am extremely out of the loop, but I believe until somewhat recently it still used nix-daemon and the corresponding drv format, but it may have since been rewritten.