Re: Guix and the developer ecosystem

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

A late reply…

Distopico <distopico@riseup.net> skribis:

> 1. Are there plans in the future to improve integration between
> development tools? For example, having haskell-language-server for
> ghc@9.x and another one for ghc@8.x, or something similar to the
> overwrite feature in Nix flake?

I don’t think the project makes “plans” for such things.  To me, it
looks like mostly a matter of packaging; if ‘haskell-language-server’ is
missing, then some Haskeller may eventually feel the need to package it.
You can hope it’ll be someone else, but perhaps you’ll find that doing
it yourself is worth trying.  :-)

Regarding customization, ‘--with-input’ and perhaps other transformation
options may correspond to your needs:

  
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Package-Transformation-Options.html

> 2. Do you see developers as a potential target audience for Guix, or is
> it mainly focused on HPC (High-Performance Computing)?

My dayjob has to do with HPC and I think Guix is a good fit for them.

But developers, whether in HPC or not, are definitely a target audience
IMO.  I believe Guix has great tools for development; that’s the spirit
of this blog post:

  
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/from-development-environments-to-continuous-integrationthe-ultimate-guide-to-software-development-with-guix/

Thanks for your feedback!

Ludo’.