Code Staging in GNU Guix — mentioned by Ambrevar

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 13:41:46 GMT

I don't think that would be enough. At the end of the article I linked the paper "Code staging in GNU Guix" (https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.00833) which explains why 2 stages of code execution are so central in Guix. In practice, this means that a Turing-complete language (Scheme) is used both at the declaration level and the build level. Lots of packages make use of this feature, it brings tremendous flexibility to packaging.

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Code Staging in GNU Guix — mentioned by davexunit

Sun, 15 Oct 2017 23:40:15 GMT

But even still you are mixing languages, so the problem remains. The issue is not that Nix uses Bash, but that Nix uses different languages for the host-side and build-side. AFAIK people aren't writing the build-side code in the Nix language, and I'm not sure if it even has the features necessary to do it. Guix unifies the different layers of code execution with a single language, and using a Lisp enabled that design. For a complete explanation of this design, see the "Code Staging in GNU Guix" paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.00833

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