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Simon Tournier
Personal blog · simon.tournier.info/postssystemsprogramming
Simon Tournier's personal blog at simon.tournier.info covers systems and programming. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Is Guix full-source bootstrap a lie?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts about Guix and the Pre-Scheme restoration. The only comment cites a linked post by Ricardo Wurmus to discuss a segfault problem and a GHC build detail in Guix's source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Is Guix full-source bootstrap a lie?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-10-10
What Hacker News says?
There's a comment in the Guix source (added by the author of that first post you linked, Ricardo Wurmus) that seems to indicate that they found a way around the segfault problem described in the post by using a registerised version of GHC: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages... I had to look up exactly what this means, not being very familiar with the Haskell ecosystem myself. It looks like…
Comment linking /posts/2023-10-01-bootstrapping.html
on “The Pre-Scheme Restoration”Submitted Is Guix full-source bootstrap a lie? as a story · 26 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Guix full-source bootstrap a lie? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Redoing one paper from ReScience C back on 2020 as a story · 1 points
HN discussion