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1 day agoI find Guix far better on almost every remark, in no particular order:
- as you said some part of the Nix community is made of techbros (even if Guix attracts some fossbros as well)
- the way governance is structured in the Nix community is brittle, just see the drama from which all the new Nix forks spawned
- better documentation. The doc for Nix is scattered, the Guix manual, albeit not perfect, is much more complete
- the Guile language is far clearer than Nix, also you don’t have to use it only for package recipes, you can build full applications with it
- the Guix story around trustability of binaries is far better (checkout how Guix boostrapps everything), entires classes of vulnerabilities are prevented by design
- the Guix UX is far better designed imho, the command line is intuitive and well documented and features are easily composable
- the community is not diverging, as is the case for Nix flakes
- Guix as well provides OCI integration, check out the point about enabling
gocix
My point on binaries was not really about reproducibility as nowadays most distros have reproducible builds: Arch, Debian, RHEL, SUSE and probably more. My point is that packages in Guix are bootstrapped from a very small binary seed, something like 357 bytes, which highly mitigates the risk of Trusting Trust attacks