Guix :) It's a shame its package coverage is nowhere near NixPkgs, because it's so much nicer to read and write. I guess eventually we'll have "Compile-to-Nix" languages, seemingly these sort of languages tend to crop up after a while for languages with lets say "harder UX".
Maybe it would be a good idea to translate Nix packages to Guix automatically via LLMs. Then we could close the gap in available software relatively quickly.
Unfortunately guix currently has banned LLM contributions. Its not set in stone but the developers intent to maintain a human based hacker environment. Nothing wrong with carving out ones own subculture of course!
There may be a sizable enough community interested in employing LLM usage to get together and create a dedicated channel for packages developed with them, or make a soft fork.
That being said, having worked on guix packages. Automated conversation is not so simple. The bottleneck for me is compilation time and cost. even with superdooper intelligence, you have to trial and error builds, fix mysterious test race conditions and match versions.
A powerful $5000 build server plus another several thousand per year for
The electricity cost would go a long way to speeding up this process.
Old second hand computers are not viable because the electricity cost for constantly building software on them is not cost effective.
It makes me kinda buthurt when some racist rich people can raise millions for some crappy arch skin distro soft fork, but serious, novel, from the ground up projects have to scratch around in the dirt for pennies.
The project may not have truly demonstrated it's worth to justify replacing nix, but I feel it's unique and special enough that it is deserving of some money falling from the sky. It's 1 of only 2 of this style of functional packaging distribution.
Guix being ideologically opposed to supporting macOS is what keeps me using Nix on my daily driver box. My NixOS box is there to run Steam, which I suspect is something Guix would also regard as anathema.
