Comment on Guix for DevelopmentparentComments−Hasnep7moIt's not the Nix/Guile that's expensive, it's situations like: let chromium = pkgs.chromium; in 1 + 1 In a maximally eager language you'd need to wait for the entirety of Chromium to build before you can find out what 1 + 1 is.−atiedebee7moI checked the spec and Scheme R5RS does have lazy evaluation in the form of promises using "delay" and "force", but I can see why explicitly having to put those everywhere isn't a good solution.
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It's not the Nix/Guile that's expensive, it's situations like:
In a maximally eager language you'd need to wait for the entirety of Chromium to build before you can find out what 1 + 1 is.I checked the spec and Scheme R5RS does have lazy evaluation in the form of promises using "delay" and "force", but I can see why explicitly having to put those everywhere isn't a good solution.