Benjamin Slade writes:
> Not something I've tried personally, but maybe PantherX (Guix-based) could be > relevant here? https://www.pantherx.org/ This is very interesting - there is definately a niche to produce off-the-shelf guix-based enterprise solutions that a mainstream devops team could rollout and interface with "standard" tech tooling without having to learn (a lot of) Scheme. My own experience is that whilst it doesn't require a PhD to setup Guix for the enterprise, it is a non-trivial journey, and it does require a fair amount of time and effort to create something that regular developers/scientists (i.e. non-Guix converts who just want to get on with their day-jobs) accept is as good or better than regular tooling they are used to. There's certainly a barrier to entry for people who don't want to do a deep-dive and just want tooling to support them in their professional role, without them having to think about it too much. Upselling the real benefits of Guix like rollbacks, profiles, perfectly reproducable builds, swapping one dependency for another - even in a scientific/tech-savvy company with lots of PhDs took a bit of persuading from me. Even now I think our company is only using perhaps 30% of the true power of Guix. Making all that power accessible to people who just want to get on with their jobs in an easy, intuitive way is a challenge I'm continuously trying to address. I also hope things like PantherX might help bridge the gap in the near future!