Perhaps we could have something like EDE mode (but one that people would actually use), which uses a Guile DSL to describe projects and which hooks nicely into

Perhaps we could have something like EDE mode (but one that people would actually use), which uses a Guile DSL to describe projects and which hooks nicely into Guix to automatically handle the dependencies of the project, and build projects in an isolated environment. With any luck we could say bye-bye to make, m4 and pkg-config too.