Re: [Nix-dev] [ANN] Guix, functional package management from Guile

2012-07-21 Thread Marc Weber
Why did I miss this mail? I think lot's of us had thoughts like this (at least I had). One of the core features of nix is that its lazy - I guess that's one of the main reason why Eelco didn't just use python/ruby/perl ... So what do you think about how performance would compare? There are *lot

Re: [Nix-dev] [ANN] Guix, functional package management from Guile

2012-07-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Marc, Marc Weber skribis: > One of the core features of nix is that its lazy - I guess that's one of > the main reason why Eelco didn't just use python/ruby/perl ... > > So what do you think about how performance would compare? While Scheme itself isn’t lazy, Guix itself is, similarly to Nix