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    codemac avatar codemac 29 days ago | link | on: Racket v7.0

    raco exe + chez will be wonderful!

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      asthma avatar asthma 29 days ago | link

      what’s the advantage in having that?

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        nc avatar nc 29 days ago | link

        Chez has a better compiler than Racket. It’s faster, and has a simpler architecture (from what I can tell). Some more details here: https://blog.racket-lang.org/2018/01/racket-on-chez-status.html

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          codemac avatar codemac 28 days ago | link

          Have you tried compiling chez in a repeatable manner, that is delivered as an executable? I got stuck for quite a while dealing with all their boot files - raco exe working would mean I don’t need to do that.

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        asthma avatar asthma edited 1 month ago | link | on: GNU Guix and GuixSD 0.15.0 released

        Is the only difference between Guix and Nix the language? I know Nix is more mature and has a bigger community with more packages, but I don’t see any user-facing changes between the two.

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          sebboh avatar sebboh 1 month ago | link

          I guess there are many differences? One important one is the license. The FSF prefers Guix and GuixSD over Nix and NixOS.

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            asthma avatar asthma 1 month ago | link

            that’s…not really…a difference in the technology

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              sebboh avatar sebboh 1 month ago | link

              Oh, you wanted only technological differences? Sorry about that. :)

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            grahamc avatar grahamc 1 month ago | link

            Guix is or was based on the Nix daemon and essentially just a fork, substituting the Nix language for scheme, plus the requirements for packaging. This was several years ago now, it may have diverged further.

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            asthma avatar asthma 2 months ago | link | on: Forget about Clean Code, let’s embrace Compassionate Code

            “Code is not important. Principles are not important. Rules are not important. People are important.”

            The guy that says that principles and rules are not important than gives the principle/rule that people are important. In a professional setting the only thing that matters is the problem and solving it, not the people, code, tools, etc. they’re all mutable.