Post #1669952
2026-04-17 11:05 UTC
The politics of language design by Pierre-Étienne Meunier in #LixCon2026
« Create your own language only if you need something new in language design »
« OCaml already exists and is the best language for that particular job »
Yeah, I would have loved instead of Nix language 😱 and Guix Scheme DSL 🤨 to have OCaml. 🤩
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@zimoun@social.sciences.re 2026-04-17 11:05
🤔 To some extent, ideas behind Elpe reminds me propellor (Haskell) Joey Hess’s talk in linux conf au 2017: https://youtu.be/kzXXcr8TyJY https://nest.pijul.com/pmeunier/elpe 6/6
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@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 2026-04-17 11:16
@zimoun guix scheme dsl is much better than nix. that's one big thing i liked about guix from the beginning
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@6d03@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-17 13:43
@zimoun But what about the evaluation order? Surely we want a lazy language to compute derivations.