alt Hacker NewsIts nice read. We need more of comparative posts by user familiar with both nix and guix.
We see bias with most discussions.
Only cons with Guix I see is, lack of infrastructure and less volunteers to work on guix eco-system. If its solved, I can imagine guix can improve exponentially.
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kwk1 • yesterday at 4:54 PM
Guix recently moved from Savannah to Codeberg, which hopefully will help move the needle on infrastructure and volunteer quantity concerns.
tempfile • yesterday at 5:00 PM
The major con is in the article, it is super slow to update. Half an hour is just crazy, nobody will move to that if they know.
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exe34 • yesterday at 9:09 PM
Would it be possible to automate nix->guix for packages? A lot of nix packages (e.g. python) I think are handled automatically. If guix could build on that huge package repo, it would really help.
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> We need more of comparative posts
The article focuses on a comparison between GUIX _system_ and NixOS. It would be interesting to see an equally thoughtful comparison that just focuses on GUIX vs. NIX as package managers used on another Linux distribution (e.g. Debian.)
In this case, GUIX might fare better as you won't have to worry about the complexities introduced by binary blobs needed for boot, etc.