Re: Help packaging R Quarto Cli

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Mon, 24 Oct 2022 at 20:40, Wojtek Kosior via <help-guix@gnu.org> wrote:

> Out of curiosity - what are the problems between Guix and JS? When I
> read this my first suspicion was that maybe TS is a self-hosted
> language and cannot be bootstrapped. However, when I ran `guix search
> typescript`, it revealed the existence of some TS->JS compiler called
> 'rust-swc'. So I guess problems lie somewhere else, right?

Nothing per se.  Note that «TypeScript is a strongly typed programming
language that builds on JavaScript» and from my understanding (maybe I
am wrong?), it is hard to package Javascript for Guix because the
Javascript ecosystem is messy.  Janneke provides some explanations [1]
and I am not convinced the situation have changed since then.  Maybe I
am wrong…

1: <https://yhetil.org/guix/87fudzndu7.fsf@gnu.org>

Cheers,
simon