Reposting because it looks like federation failed.

I was just reading about it, it sounds like a pretty cool OS and package manager. Has anyone actually used it?

  • Atemu@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    the parts of Guix in which packages are defined are quite pure, even using monads for some things

    Monads have nothing to do with purity. In fact, one of the most infamous usages of them is Haskell’s IO monad which is probably the most impure construct in the entire language.

    it is really not too different from the Nix language.

    Hm, I can’t help but think that a lisp dialect can never really be similar to any language except another lisp.

    • Spore@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      No, monadic interface is used to programmatically access the store instead of being used to define packages. Packages are pure in Guix.