That looks like a typical academic project that is overwhelmingly likely to die as soon as the grants run out, what am I missing? Where are the users?
> nix is developed in cpp
Who cares?
> its own (poorly documented) dsl to interact with it
Nix documentation is not by any means ideal and is kind of scattered, but calling it "poor" is a blatant misrepresentation.
> guix is developed in guile and you use guile to interact with it > this alone implies that you get far more from just learning guile than nix dsl > if all you want to do is package management
Argument by repetition, wonderful.
> as for a one to one technical comparison, it is just a google search away
That is... not good. And when a commenter pointed out its biases and misleading generalizations, the author invited them to go listen to a stream, lol, nope.
> you keep sloganeering that guile is useless outside of guix.
That's because it is, no need to get so defensive about it. It does not detract from its technical qualities! In any case, the goalpost got moved way far from the original "Guile iS tHe OfFiCiAl eXtEnSiOn LaNgUaGe Of ThE gNu PrOjEcT", wouldn't you say?
> forgive me if i dont take your claim at face value
"Guile is for all practical purposes useless outside the Guix ecosystem" is my null hypothesis here and so far I stand by it. "Proving" that would be proving a negative, so I don't intend to even attempt that. It should, however, be fairly easy to disprove if you have data. Show us how learning Guile (or any Lisp that is not Elisp really -- sad!) is likely to be worthwhile for a "normal person" apart from using it for Guix.