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Opposite for me. Nix syntax is much more pleasant to use and while Nix error messages are by no means perfect, still more fun than digging through multiple layers of Scheme.

Does Guix have anything similar to Nix flakes yet?

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I believe the use of Guix channels shown in the article is comparable to Flakes.

From what I understand, channels can be used to extend Guix, but don't quite work like Flakes, more like the old Nix channels. The thing that makes Flakes special is that they allow you to treat Git repositories like software packages. No more need for a distribution to package the software, you can just drop a 'flake.nix' file into the Git repository and that makes it behave like a package that users can install and other Flakes can depend on. I am really fond of the ability to just run software straight from Git, e.g.:

   nix run github:ggerganov/llama.cpp

Makes it really easy to switch versions, fork, patch or otherwise customize things.

The blog post in this submission makes the same point: a git repo can be a channel, you just need to add a file for it.

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