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bedrocklinux-userland
This tracks development for the things such as scripts and (defaults for) config files for Bedrock Linux
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lowdefy
The config web stack for business apps - build internal tools, client portals, web apps, admin panels, dashboards, web sites, and CRUD apps with YAML or JSON.
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silverblue-site
Discontinued Historic website for Fedora Silverblue. Now at https://gitlab.com/fedora/websites-apps/fedora-websites/fedora-websites-3.0
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Hence, a higher number means a better guix alternative or higher similarity.
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- GNU Guix is a package manager for GNU/Linux systems
- GNU Guix: package manager for Linux
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The Most Elegant Configuration Language
And then see how it's done in real life: https://guix.gnu.org/
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Douglas Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)
Guix is a Nix-like package manager and distro that is almost entirely written in Guile Scheme: https://guix.gnu.org/
I would guess it's by far the most active Guile project.
- Debian Packaging from First Principles
- Nix – A One Pager
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Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration
> So what we are missing now is a 500GB framework that can write the config file for the programming language that is writing a config file for the actual program I wish to use.
That exists since 1960. It's called LISP. The e.g. https://guix.gnu.org/ uses with great success, the Guile Scheme dialect of LISP, to be precise. And FYI the "framework" is:
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NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments
> inventing a brand new purely functional language programming language.
ISTM that if you dislike that, then there's GUIX.
https://guix.gnu.org/
Very briefly, AFAICT, it's "Nix but using Scheme".
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Linux saved my life
And just wait till you discover Arch Linux, Gentoo, Guix, or NixOS.
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The nicest web browser of 2023 uses Lisp.
https://guix.gnu.org for example. It did load before an update but it doesn't anymore.
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guix-mirror/guix is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of guix is Scheme.
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