cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32333121

This article isn’t about convincing you to choose Scheme over other languages. Instead, if you’ve already recognized the growing trend of functional programming and are curious about powerful, well-established functional languages, this piece will illuminate Scheme’s often-overlooked strengths in a production setting.

Find the full article here:

https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/lisps/scheme-and-lisps-are-great-for-production/index.html

With the idea of promoting the usage of Guix and of my favourite programming language Guile Scheme, I created a small project which is still in early stages, but I think with some more love and effort can be quite something.

https://jointhefreeworld.org/guile-show-hub/

The Guile ShowHub! Promoting all Guile projects out there! By reading from foss Guix project source code we can tap into a plethora of information, and leverage the homoiconicity of Lisp to directly analyze the source code and extract info.

Always wanted to selfhost your Fediverse instance but were always worried about system administration trauma?

Do you ever have to run around your flat, picking up all the leftover parentheses from yesterday's party with your hosting coop coworkers?

Then you are probably the right person, check out this post about fearless Bonfire hosting on a Guix System. You'll learn that taking care of a community is much more manageable when you let computer do the boring work for you.

Set up HTTPS, automatic backups, automatic nightly upgrades and join the awesome Bonfire community without a single worry on losing data from your instance.

Recently I got into NixOS and started setting it up -- until I found Guix System. I started feeling like Nix is more of a DSL, while Guix seems more like a truly programmable system. But I still can’t decide between them. What do you find most attractive about Guix System compared to NixOS?