Hello Catonano, Thanks for the blog post, I added your feed to my feed reader. I understand your frustration with autotools, it can be difficult to figure out how to get autotools to do what you want. The benefit of autotools is that it creates the same interface to build, test, and install GNU software (of course if implemented the correctly...). This interface usually makes it easier for others to package for their distribution.
What I think we need to do to improve Guile's chances for success is to take a serious look at our tools and practices, improve them if needed, and document the best ways to set up Guile and use it. Guix is great, but we can't forget Guile users who don't use Guix. This probably includes packaging Guile libraries for these other package managers. - Erik (OrangeShark)
