Ludovic CourtèsFeb 27, 2024

#Guix Packager 📦 supports a couple more languages and build systems as of… today!
https://guix-hpc.gitlabpages.inria.fr/guix-packager/

Kudos to Philippe Virouleau for the good hack.

Guix Packager

Generate a Guix package definition interactively.

Show threadLudovic CourtèsFeb 27, 2024

Someone asked during Café Guix whether we could use Hoot to run bits of Guix such as importers in the browser, which would nicely complement Guix Packager.

I suppose we’re still far from it because of C bindings these modules depend on, such as Guile-Gcrypt and POSIX sockets (for the HTTP client). But maybe someday these interfaces could be implemented in JS/wasm to allow for seamless integration?

Show threadSimon TournierFeb 27, 2024
@civodul And what about the Guile standard library implemented in C? What is under libguile/ say.
Show threaddaveFeb 27, 2024
@zimoun @civodul anything that's needed either needs a pure scheme implementation or a wasm implementation with a scheme wrapper. we have some stuff now but it's basically r7rs-small plus a few of the more important guile extensions.
Show threadLudovic CourtèsFeb 27, 2024

@dthompson Right, implementing a subset of (gcrypt …) and (web …) in wasm (or in another language compiled to wasm) should unlock a number of applications.

@zimoun

Show threaddave
@civodul @zimoun for goblins we might switch to libsodium compiled to wasm or something, but the same could be done for gcrypt
Feb 27, 2024 at 2:10pmWeb
Show threadEugenFeb 27, 2024
@dthompson @civodul @zimoun there is work in wasm to support 'components' that will (easily) allow code written in different languages to be compiled to #WASM and used together. a step. Also WASI preview 2 approved ~1 month ago brings access to environment variables, cli args, file system and http . Good times ahead IMO. Components might come Q4 this year or next year, but things are in better shape for doing stuff outside browser.
Show threaddaveFeb 27, 2024
@ieugen @civodul @zimoun WASI seems useful for the "static languages in non-web, non-gc runtimes" folks but so far it seems irrelevant to what interests me with wasm.