„There's no one else in GOV.UK that uses Guix to develop“

https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-guix/issues/32#issuecommen...

We're trying something similar - to provide a set of curated services with example deployments for cities or municipalities. We build on NixOS and use morph for deployment. Services include simple-nixos-mailserver, Redmine, Sympa, owncloud with LibreOffice Online and many more. If you're working on something similar or your're interested in helping with this cause feel free to contact me via email or IRC.

"anyone stumbling upon these repositories (both inside and outside GOV.UK) may assume this is needed to build and run GOV.UK"

https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-guix/issues/32#issuecommen...

gov.uk was already brilliant in terms of browsing ergonomics, now they're gone even higher.

For software designed to be hosted in a datacenter (rather than distributed to an end user) is there a reason why Guix is better than some containerization framework? With things like Nix there's reproduciblity guarantees. With containers it (appears) simpler to package and reproduciblity ship your software.

What is Guix's main selling point?

I've sent them a pull request with some spelling corrections.

https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-guix/pull/35/files

Can someone familiar with this explain what it is? I've read the guix page and it's a package manager - so is this a graphical or command line tool to do UK government stuff (with no screenshots)? Or something else?