Just using Guix requires a pretty substantial amount of administrative work. I'd imagine maintaining it is even more intense and that's why they're running into issues like this.
You have to be pretty slow to be outrun by Debian of all distros.
You have to be pretty slow to be outrun by Debian of all distros.
Like, as a user downloading packages, or a person packaging an application?
As a user downloading a package, it's been super easy for me and it's been years of running Guix with little to no issue (yet the benefits of rolling release, rollbacks, installing multiple versions of a given software etc.).
As for using it to package an application, I found the challenges mainly in the documentation. This was years ago and a lot of work has gone into improving the docs.
I'm curious what your experience has been.
It's hard to have an opinion of a platform you haven't used but based on how bloated just starting it seemed to be I was unimpressed.
For the record, the Guix System install media is less than 1 GB. And the Guix installer from upstream looks to be 100 MB right now.