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   futurile (futurile@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 22:38:03 JST futurile

   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/

   #scheme #linux #scheme #lisp #gnu #nix

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 22:15:37 JST Janneke

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     • Jesse

     @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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     Jesse (jaawerth@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 22:15:38 JST Jesse

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     @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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     Jesse (jaawerth@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 22:15:39 JST Jesse

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     @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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     futurile (futurile@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 22:15:39 JST futurile

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     • Jesse

     @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.