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What are your opinions of Guix?
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Scheme is the most functional of all non-purely-functional languages that I know of. What's more, the parts of Guix in which packages are defined are quite pure, even using monads for some things, so it is really not too different from the Nix language.
Monads have nothing to do with purity. In fact, one of the most infamous usages of them is Haskell's IO monad which is probably the most impure construct in the entire language.
Hm, I can't help but think that a lisp dialect can never really be similar to any language except another lisp.
No, monadic interface is used to programmatically access the store instead of being used to define packages. Packages are pure in Guix.
So I guess they just wanted to use an established language?
Guile Scheme is the official extensions language for the GNU Project. Guile and Guix's history often intersect as Guix is seen as the shining poster child of Guile and contributes to a lot of Guile's development.
When you say "Scheme" you should also refer to what type of Scheme you're referring to as there are multiple with different feature sets/goals.
TIL.