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Written by futurile on 2025-01-24 at 13:31

The #guix survey's results are out!

Posting things I found interesting!

1. Guix has a fantastically committed community

We've never done a survey before, so I was really worried about how many would take part. Over 900 participants did so!

Even more amazing - 150 people took part who were previous users or contributors! Thank-you for taking the time.

Thanks all!

It means the results are a great sample. Read the posts:

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/guix-user-and-contributor-survey-2024-the-results-part-1/

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Written by Jesse on 2025-01-24 at 15:31

@futurile One upside to Guile Scheme I didn't see mentioned in the survey that's huge for me (though I've only dipped my toe into #guix thus far), is the simple "not a DSL" aspect.

Too many tools use DSL's unnecessarily, which just adds cognitive debt. A relatively minimalist general purpose language is IMO usually friendlier + more rewarding of the time learning it. And when it's a #lisp, you can (if you're a hipster) get going pretty quickly even if it's a dialect you haven't touched before!

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Written by futurile on 2025-01-24 at 18:17

@jaawerth Nice! Yes, I don't recall a specific comment from someone setting that out - people identified "Guile and Scheme are cool" but I guess the benefit of it being a general language rather than a DSL was implicit.

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Written by Jesse on 2025-01-24 at 18:38

@futurile

Fair, it probably is, implicit, but I can't resist calling out the upside as long as so many other tools keep DSLing me 😂

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Written by Janneke on 2025-01-25 at 13:15

@jaawerth @futurile well, maybe that is because Guix provides a Domain Specific Language (DSL) in Guile.

So saying that Guix uses Guile (instead of a toy language) pretty much covers it.

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Written by futurile on 2025-01-25 at 18:01

@janneke @jaawerth Yeah - in a lot of my blog posts I've put that you don't have to know Guile to use Guix.

I think the Guix functions are so good you can use it as a DSL with no understanding of the surrounding Scheme ... and then when you're more advanced you have the power of Guile to do all the cool things!

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