Hi! Chris Dale <[email protected]> skribis:
> As you may have guessed, it is not > my OS hacking skillz that interest me in the project, but my desire to see > functional programming get used in practical software. I'm willing to learn > just about anything to contribute to that goal :) Guix is written mostly in a functional style, so hacking in there would fit. > Broadly though, it seems like the order of business would be boot-to-Guile > + Guix → dmd → Guile-scsh → nwm. Obviously those chunks are discrete, and > you could chop them off at any point and still be better off than you were > before. I could also see an argument for reversing the order of Guile-schsh > and nwm, but as an arch user I always think of shells before window > managers :D The bootable thing requires some design and hacking on the core of Guix. So I don’t think it’d be reasonable as a summer project. (Plus I hope that some progress has been made by this time!) > My ideal project result would be a bootable distro that I can configure and > interact with in Guile Scheme. If it had a wm, that'd be the icing on the > cake (as wms always are! :P). Thoughts? We’d just need to come up with a more precise task list, I suppose. :-) I can’t really offer to mentor work on Guile-SCSH or on a WM, unless there’s specific integration work with Guix. WDYT? Ludo’.
