@ekaitz_zarraga To be fair, there’s very little to know about Scheme as a language (values, lexical scope, function application).

I think most of the learning time goes into into understanding idioms and learning interfaces.

It’s this transition that the manual fails to support.

@ekaitz_zarraga Guile’s manual has become a bit messy TBH⁰ :-), but not all of it assumes Scheme knowledge. In particular:
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Hello-Scheme_0021.html

⁰ Re messy: this is largely because it was written by many people over a very long period.

@ekaitz_zarraga Re NodeJS, I think the main difference (correct me if I’m wrong) is that Node doesn’t have a manual in the classic sense of the word (it has an API reference, but that’s not how one learns).

Instead, one types questions in a browser and gets the answer from one of the many resources available.

@ekaitz_zarraga In a way, I’m relieved that you’re pointing at what’s pretty much internals documentation. :-)

I don’t actually know the answer to these questions about ‘current-read-waiter’, but we could find it. Worth a bug report!

@ekaitz_zarraga I trust you about the Guile documentation, but to make it actionable, it’d be great if you could say which things exactly were missing from the manual.

Regarding lightening, do you have a link to the merge request or something? We can check with Andy.

@ekaitz_zarraga IOW, reports of bad experiences from newcomers are invaluable; we need them to make on-boarding easier!

It’s weird: I find it surprisingly difficult to answer the question “What’s up in Guix?” when it comes from someone following from a distance or not even following.

Perhaps it’s just that I’m so much head-down on it that it’s hard to zoom out?

Today it's been 10 years since the first #GNU #Guix commit! 🎂

Some of the 600+ people who made it possible wrote their story:

👉 https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2022/10-years-of-stories-behind-guix/

🎉 🥳 👏 #FreeSoftware #Guix10Years

The #Guix Days program is on-line!

📺 You can already watch the talks:
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2022/online-guix-days-2022-announcement-2/ 👈

... and join on-line this week-end for Q&As and BoFs!

👍 @roptat and all the organizers + speakers.

In the footsteps of @janneke, I’ve submitted a package for… GCC 2.95.
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/53964

@ekaitz_zarraga Oh indeed, I had forgotten RISC-V JIT support was already in… Awesome!

@ekaitz_zarraga For RISC-V you mean?

#GNU #Guile 3.0.8 is out! 👇

https://gnu.org/s/guile/news/gnu-guile-308-released.html

Despite the minor number, that’s a pretty big release, bringing: cross-module inlining (!), improved bignums without GMP custom allocators, reduced heap usage when compiling, and a number of bug fixes and optimizations. 👍

@ekaitz_zarraga Heh, overwhelmed. Always trying to figure out how to better organize myself, drop commitments, make space for other things in life. But I’m also super excited when I see all the things that people are doing!

@ekaitz_zarraga I had the privilege to view it beforehand :-) and I loved it! I enjoyed the personal experience report, blood & sweat—something we all too often keep for ourselves.

No less than 5 talks around #GNU #Guix at #FOSDEM this week-end! 🎉
👉 https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2022/meet-guix-at-fosdem-2022/

… and a bunch of other exciting talks on the same track, including very Lispy nerdy things I won’t miss!

We've just published the Guix-HPC annual report!

👉 https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2022/02/guix-hpc-activity-report-2021/

See how we support #ReproducibleResearch workflows, from core #Guix work to #SoftwareHeritage support to #Jupyter integration and more.

I remember Ledru championing efforts to replace GCC with Clang, notably in Debian, and now he appears to be leading the work to replace the #GNU Coreutils:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Rust-Coreutils-Jan-2022

Users need a memory-safe ‘mkdir’ command more than they need copyleft, I suppose?

I guess a related question is: what do we, #copyleft folks, have to offer that’s technically exciting enough that it could gain mindshare?

There are several answers high in the stack—PeerTube! Mobilizon!—but probably too few at the systems level.

@kirschwipfel There’s Gash and Gash-Utils, POSIX shell and commands implemented in #Guile by @janneke & co. More exciting (to me!) because it fits in the bigger #Guix picture.

And… it’s memory-safe! :-)