Re: Idea: a meta language for (language) build systems - npm, Racket, Rust cargo

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> writes:

> Guix as a build system, with or without GWL, is fine as long as 
> it's
> just fun and games […]

I keep seeing GWL in unexpected places, so I feel the need to 
state that the GWL is not meant to help anyone *build* software. 
It’s meant to let you *combine* applications and *run* them on an 
HPC cluster (or on a bunch of physical or virtual machines) to 
process raw data.  The intended use case is scientific workflows.

Don’t try to use the GWL as a build system; it will end in tears.

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Ricardo