Re:Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf
by robertlagrant on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @04:44PM
(#30924774)
Never heard of guix til now. An annoying piece of software with a cult-like following does sound up my street, though.
Re:Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf
by b1n on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @06:29PM
(#30925910)
New GUIX user here. I've found the documentation to be good and the "zealots" seem very friendly - maybe take another look.
Re:Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf
by rekado on Thursday April 07, 2022 @04:43AM
(#30942120)
"poorly documented" is a new one for me. It's got one of the best manuals out there. A little short on examples maybe, but there's a separate cookbook with tutorials, and lots of blog posts.
But maybe I'm just a "GNU zealot".
Re:Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf
by packetlost on Thursday April 07, 2022 @09:53AM
(#30944446)
The documentation appears good, until you fall off the already very narrow happy-path to just get things working. I can't even get the hello-world program to work following the instructions exactly on a clean Ubuntu VM.
I didn't mean to imply everyone who uses it is a GNU zealot, but there's definitely a subset who are.
Re:Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf
by sph on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @02:57PM
(#30923342)
I honestly never heard anyone on HN recommending Guix over Nix.
Re:Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf
by packetlost on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @06:23PM
(#30925857)
I'm explicitly not recommending it. I want to like it, but it doesn't give me any reason to
Really, I like the idea and I actually like the fact that they use Guile (scheme) instead of a home-built DSL, but guix is a horrible, poorly documented, doesn't work even on the happy path mess.