Crafting a Guix Installer with Guile and GTK - System Crafters Live!

In this stream, we'll hack on the early stages of a graphical installation UI for GNU Guix! We will use the built-in modules from the official Guix installer to power a new GTK UI written with Guile Scheme. We'll also try to use the Glade UI builder tool to speed up the prototyping process. Let's see how far we can get!

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[halfacanuck]

Your experience in this video reminded me why I've been getting into retro computing. My conclusion from observing how computing has evolved is that _all_ software subsystems (even ones as conceptually trivial as a widget kit or an installer) expand proportionally with available resources, unnecessarily, leading to ever-increasing complexity and ever-decreasing comprehensibility, efficiency, productivity, and, well, _fun_ .

Frankly, that Guix installer looks like a maintenance nightmare: a poorly designed, over-engineered Rube Goldberg contraption requiring a training course for anyone attempting to modify it. Were I the project manager I'd simply trash most of it and start over.

Recently I've been dreaming of an 8-bit CPU, simple such that many can fit on a single die but highly parallelizable, with a parallelism-optimized Scheme in ROM—along with, ooh, I dunno, a "text editor" written in it, of course ;)

[halfacanuck]

GTK 4: because we couldn't get it right the first three times.