Notices tagged with nix, page 2

#FediHire

Ironically, after working for 2 years on a self-funded startup in tech hiring, I'm searching for a #remote CTO position in the #uk.

I will consider tech lead / sr. developer positions. #Rust #Nix #Haskell #Lean4 #Lean #OCaml

I slap – https://memorici.de/Jons_Mostovojs___CV___Software_Architect.pdf

Why are people interested in #guix ?

Declarative configuration (80%) and it's cousin Reproducibility (70%) were top choices which come from the #Nix heritage.

"Scheme, Guile and Lisp are cool" (72%) was second. This seems a different trend - interest in #lisp, #scheme perhaps driven by approaches in langs like #javascript - also some influence from #emacs community

Then came #FSF #GNU and #FOSS interest in Free Software (43%). Then #linux package management!

See:

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

About 50% of users adopt #guix as a #gnu #linux distribution. Most in a #linux #desktop config.

That surprised me as it's harder than starting with it as a hosted package manager.

A lot of #linux #developers are interested in #declarative configuration. Feels like people are experimenting with #nix and #guix. Users commonly mentioned #nixos #archlinux #debian and #ubuntu

About 5% initially adopt as a server, and then when they have confidence it goes up to about a third. That's cool!

The #guix survey also showed that our users are knowledgeable #Linux people. Almost 50% are experts/advanced and 47% are intermediate!

A lot of the attraction is the #nix value of declarative configuration and reproducibility. Users also identified that Scheme, Guile and Lisp are cool! Perhaps the overlap of two different communities! That was my path from #clojure and #ubuntu /#debian

See Q1 in the post:

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

#scheme #emacs #guile #lisp #declarative #reproducible

#guix is growing and many new users are adopting it!

Almost 75% of the user-base are recent adopters having used it for less than 4 years. 50% less than 2 years!

It's a similar to #Nix who's survey showed 65% of users were 0-2 years.

There's been a surge of interest in the benefits of #declarative and #reproducibility.

And with #guix we also get #lisp and #gnu #freesoftware - but don't worry you don't _have_ to use #emacs to use Guix (said the #vim user)

See:

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

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

I was watching a Decentralized Systems course and there was a statement: Git was developed for Linux (a kernel, zero-dependency software) that's one of the reasons why managing dependencies is out of scope (submodules are a trainwreck).

Guix and Nix are basically just an extension of Git, which uses git itself as a database for storing dependency information in plain text format and requires external infrastructure to deal with it.

#guix #nix

Nix - Death by a thousand cuts

https://www.dgt.is/blog/2025-01-10-nix-death-by-a-thousand-cuts/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.dgt.is/blog/2025-01-10-nix-death-by-a-thousand-cuts/

#linux #nix #unix

Guix Social just welcomed our 105th member to the meetup group! It's been a really fun year of chat and talks about Guix, the declarative approach to Linux, as well as Guile, Scheme and Lisp.

Next week we have another really interesting talk. If you're interested in hanging out with a friendly group - find out more on the Meetup or Wiki pages!

https://www.meetup.com/guix-social/events/304634420/

https://libreplanet.org/wiki?title=Group:Guix/PatchReviewSessions2024

@fnat

#linux #apps #guix #nix #guile #scheme #lisp

@dansup @koen @loops Thanks! A well supported stack in #nixos with many examples in #nixpkgs so packaging it up with #nix shouldn’t be a problem for us. Docker is fine too of course, for wide adoption.

The #Nix docs have a reputation for being not-great, and I got to experience that after reviewing the "Ad hoc Shell Environments" page and attempting to try some things there:

https://nix.dev/tutorials/first-steps/ad-hoc-shell-environments

```
❯ nix-shell -p nodejs-20_x
error: getting status of '/nix/var/nix/daemon-socket/socket': Permission denied
```

Now, why would creating an env specific to my current user require access to a socket owned by another user?

I read somewhere that to solve this #Nix error I needed to add my current user to the `nix-users` group, which I did, but then I got another error:

```
❯ nix-shell -p nodejs-20_x
error: creating directory '/nix/store': Permission denied
```

Again, I'm not running the command as root or with `sudo`, so it's unclear why Nix insists on attempting to run as another user.

`nix-shell` could also provide more useful error messages than "permission denied".

Not a great first impression.

So I created that directory and there's a new error:

```
❯ nix-shell -p nodejs-20_x
error: creating directory '/nix/store/.links': Permission denied
```

Created that directory, and there's another error:

```
❯ nix-shell -p nodejs-20_x
error: creating directory '/nix/var/nix/temproots': Permission denied
```

#Nix has an missed opportunity to here to check for these error states and produce a more useful diagnostic message than "permission denied".

I manually resolved those directory issues with #nix, only to reveal a new category of error:

```
error: file 'nixpkgs' was not found in the Nix search path (add it using $NIX_PATH or -I)
```

Sorry, if trying Nix was supposed to a step towards using #NixOS, the out of the box experience has been poor for me on Arch Linux.

Apparently this issue might be that first `nix-channel` needs to download something? That could have been done automatically or the diagnostic message could say that.

Reepca and I (well, mostly Reepca) just fixed a deadlock in the #Guix build daemon code base inherited from #Nix:
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/31785

I filed the issue 6 years ago, spent hours investigating over the years when it would manifest, and it had always been there!

Hey everyone 👋 , here's my #introduction

I'm a #linux and #bsd enthusiast based in Denmark that has been using #nix and #nixos for the last few years across all my machines.

I code in #elixir, #python, and #golang with plenty of shell scripting.

I love all things #devops , #sailing , and #cybersecurity

I moved from a self-hosted instance to infosec.exchange due to GoDaddy #enshittification in the form of price gouging combined with forced removal of privacy from your domain registrant details if you want to transfer to another registrar in hopes you'll stay.

I'm not a very active poster, I'm here mostly to find out about cool things and offer the occassional comment or boost here and there.

I really like #nix but I don't know if getting more into it will help me net a job.

Are you excited about @spritely? Do you care about decentralized networks? Do you also, potentially, like lisp and scheme? Are you, by any chance, a fan of functional programming or functional package managers like #Nix or #Guix?!

If ANY of these are true, you should come to my talk TODAY, in 2.5 hours, where I'm going to talk about Spritely! WebAssembly! Decentralized networks! And video games! Don't miss it! https://www.meetup.com/guix-social/events/303599147

Guix Social online meetup this Thursday with a talk by @cwebber of the @spritely

Interested in distributed communities and #socialmedia ? Or #guile #lisp and their futures in the web browser due to #WASM ! Or how about #guix / #nix and the future of the OS with distributed Shepherd? Christine is always curious, interesting and creative - so don't miss this one!

Details on the Wiki or Meetup pages:

https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/PatchReviewSessions2024

https://www.meetup.com/guix-social/events/303599147/