[Nix-dev] [***SPAM***] [ANN] Guix, functional package management from Guile

[Sander van der Burg - EWI]

Hehe, the good ol' internal vs external DSL debate....

In my opinion, the good thing about an experiment like this, is to show how people can utilise Nix to solve their deployment issues, instead of developing yet-another-specialised-package-manager-for-a-particular-programming-language-or-environment.
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From: Ludovic Courtès [ludo at gnu.org]
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 11:21 AM
To: Sander van der Burg - EWI
Cc: nix-dev
Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] [***SPAM***] [ANN] Guix, functional package management from Guile

Hey,

Sander van der Burg - EWI <S.vanderBurg at tudelft.nl> skribis:

> Awesome experiment Ludovic!

Thanks.  :-)

> Actually, I had some "crazy ideas" in the past as well. For example,
> to develop an "internal DSL" for Nix in Scala (no specific reason why
> it's useful, but oh well....)

Yeah, I believe embedded DSLs have nice advantages.

Thanks,
Ludo’.