Is anyone there using Guix as a daily driver? Is it stable? Would love to hear some user experiences.
Guix is more elegant in ways such as guile versus nix the dsl, although the haskell underpinning of nix is very useful.
If you're a linux user willing to put in the time and play around then both are perfectly usable as daily drivers but they're both learning experiences as well.
Hard to say which will win out, probably both, with excellent interoperability.
They really are the future of os managment, they simplify abstractions of state and naming
I thought Nix was written in C++?
For many Haskellers, I believe the interest stems from how Haskell's "cabal-install" (its closest equivalent to pip, cargo etc) used to be pretty broken. There wasn't universal interest in fixing this, with some insisting that installing dependencies is the job of your distro's package manager, not your language's ecosystem.
Gentoo did an okay job at having coverage of Haskell dependencies, but Nix was the clear leader ever since they could auto-import the hackage database. It's for this sole reason that I moved from Gentoo to Nix.
This pipeline I came through doesn't really exist now, because the Haskell community has endorsed Stackage, and cabal has fixed its core problems by copying the nix solution.
The idea of two functional, declarative package/system managers being interoperable is very exciting for me, if it meant I can use full breadth of Nixpkgs with system config declared in Guile. But is that something I can look forward to or is it too much?
It'll probably work as a daily driver if you mainly live in a web browser and don't do GPGPU/games/new languages/etc. If you don't mind building from source you can even do most of those.
For what it's worth the project seems very well structured and the contributors very competent and motivated. I am tracking the project.
For what it's worth, I use Guix and I've been able to do everything but CUDA just fine. (CUDA will never be supported in Guix as it requires proprietary drivers to function.) There are opencl packages, for example. It works well enough to run an Ethereum miner, Blender, and even games in WINE. I've been meaning to package AMD ROCm for better GPU compute support.