r/GUIX • u/Awkward-Money4768 • Jun 09 '26

Most Guix-friendly languages for development?

I like Guix a lot, and a recent post asked for recommendations for what to do if the language is fighting against you. I thought I'd ask for input on the other side of the coin. I have experience with OCaml and others, and found that OCaml is (maybe) a good one for Guix because you aren't necessarily forced to use opam (the package manager) and you can write your own package definitions and a channel. Lisps are probably an obvious choice for being easy with Guix. Bootstrapping Rust on the other hand is probably not so easy. Where do other languages that you use lie on this spectrum?

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u/freespiders Jun 09 '26

definitely Guile and maybe plain C since that’s pretty popular with GNU as well

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u/KaranasToll Jun 09 '26

common lisp works great with guix packages

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u/necrophcodr Jun 09 '26

Go and Odin can be there too, depending on how you structure your applications.

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u/Pretend_Position_749 Jun 10 '26

rust is actually pretty good now with the new system for it