 So far a clear win for #Nix over #Guix for me: it's very easy to run build steps from a shell. I don't have to jump through hoops, like adding a deliberate error after a build phase in Scheme and enabling keep-failed and then entering the build environment and copy-pasting commands from the log to re-run them.  @abcdw GJS is powered by ESR #spidermonkey from #firefox . https://gjs-docs.gnome.org/gjs/ Spidermonkey ESR is 128 which has wasm support for GC - guile-hoot works on it. Version 1.81.2 is built on Spidermonkey 128 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/raw/HEAD/NEWS , but no mention of wasm. I asked in an issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/-/issues/638 Please share if you end up digging into this and find it works :) . @ieugen Sure, I'll. I work with guile-hoot half time, porting some TypeScript code to it, a bit painful at the moment, but it works overall. But would be twice as cool to have hoot API to gnome/gtk. Thank you for making a ticket! Have you seen a recent gnome? It's pretty nice! I found a couple bugs, but overall expreince is very satisfying. I'm curious if GJS (Gnome's JavaScript) plays nicely with wasm? @abcdw GJS is powered by ESR #spidermonkey from #firefox . https://gjs-docs.gnome.org/gjs/ Spidermonkey ESR is 128 which has wasm support for GC - guile-hoot works on it. Version 1.81.2 is built on Spidermonkey 128 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/raw/HEAD/NEWS , but no mention of wasm. I asked in an issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/-/issues/638 Please share if you end up digging into this and find it works :) . Few notes made during implementation of #srfi64 for #guile turned into a blog post: https://wolfsden.cz/blog/post/state-of-srfi-64.html  @graywolf FWIW Iāve always been dissatisfied with SRFI-64, the spec and (perhaps more importantly) the implementation (all those ācond-expandā make it very messy, indeed). I get by by using a subset of the interface; I donāt use groups, I donāt fiddle with the runner API unless I canāt avoid it, and I even avoid ātest-errorā because itās not correctly ported to Guile IIRC. Itās mostly okay. But clearly, thereās room for a better test suite interface and implementation! Magit is the tool that makes me fire dozens of commits weekly without getting in the way or triggering RSI. Rebasing, branch and worktree management, amends, fixups and all other important functionality is 3-4 presses away. https://emacsair.me/2024/08/09/magit-4.0/ Good work @tarsius, keep rocking. Support magit project financially or by spreading the word, especially if you benifit from it financially or it saves your precious time.  Damn so much is working already! Who would have thought it'd be that easy? Lemmy feels like a good old day web. Small, cozy, focused, hand-made.  Yep, like old forums. And there are other compatible platforms coming too. Nodebb, piefed. Some call it the āthreadiverseā. As a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, i learn so much about insects, plants, buildings, memes ā all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn't experience. If you're wondering whether anybody reads these things: YES.
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   Zulip is basically a cool Web UI + an orgainzation-wide kind of mailing lists, separated by departments/groups (using channels) and with ability to edit subject (topic), message itself and to split/move threads. It's really sad to see how VPNs are getting blocked in Russia. It's not the first time it's happenning, but it's another (more technological this time) step in this awful direction. My friends, relatives and many other people are getting isolated with this hard to penetrate informational and physical bubble. P.S. Access to many services, news portals and other sources of information are already blocked, youtube is slowed down and probably on the way to be blocked as well. https://www.zdnet.com/article/switzerland-now-requires-all-government-software-to-be-open-source/ Every so-called "government" should do that.  One cool thing about WASM is that it's like JVM bytecode, but modern and for almost all languages. It makes interop much easier and brings polyglot, syntax and language agnostic future much closer.   @abcdw I am curious how Aarch64 Guix runs on metal. I can for certain that Arch64 Debian Bookworm is perfectly stable, and a very good experience. @abcdw tuxedo plan a release as well, with linux support https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-on-ARM-is-coming.tuxedo |
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Replacing Bash with Guile could be a clear win too, because Bash is an awful language, but Guile's interactive experience is not all that great in my experience, and because of how code staging is done in Guix, you can't just easily run bits of Guile code inside an interactive REPL to build a package.
@csepp guix shell -D <pkg>?