+1 Guix for bioinformatics On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 08:34:52AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > (Reduced the Cc) > > > Now to the cons (the prior was the pros): I donnu about Guile Scheme, > > heard from former Cygnus ppl (including Ian Taylor IIRC) it was a > > mistake. > > A language change is not going to happen. > > I should say that one of the main reasons why I took interest in Guix > was Guile. As an Emacs user and Scheme fan I’m obviously biased towards > '(list guile elisp racket), but I really think that using Guile makes > Guix really attractive: package recipes are just Scheme objects > that also contain quoted code to be run at build time. > > This approach of just using one flexible language makes it very easy to > use Guix as a library, as shown by Guix Web, a web interface for Guix, > or the Emacs user interface. > > I’m very glad Guix isn’t built on Python or JavaScript... > > > Is this why it doesn’t make any buzz or is it because you don’t try > > hard enough to contact the papers??? Would be nice if someone signed > > up to advocate Guix for distress etc… > > Guix is a pretty young project. I wouldn’t worry so much about adoption > at this point. > > That said, Guix is becoming a serious contender for enabling > reproducible scientific environments in bioinformatics. At the > bioinformatics institute where I have my system administrator hat on > we’re using Guix on two clusters. It helps that Guix now has packages > for a great number of common scientific applications, libraries, and > language environments. > > For bioinformatics people there is a separate mailing list on which Guix > is discussed for use in bioinformatics environments: > http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/bio-packaging > > ~~ Ricardo > >
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