Blog — Dissecting Guix
Dissecting Guix, Part 3: G-Expressions
April 19, 2023
Welcome back to Dissecting Guix ! Last time, we discussed monads , the functional programming idiom used by Guix to thread a store connection through a series of store-related…
Dissecting Guix, Part 2: The Store Monad
February 20, 2023
Hello again! In the last post , we briefly mentioned the with-store and run-with-store macros. Today, we'll be looking at those in further…
Dissecting Guix, Part 1: Derivations
January 4, 2023
To a new user, Guix's functional architecture can seem quite alien, and possibly offputting. With a combination of extensive #guix -querying, determined manual-reading, and plenty of source-perusing, they…