On Thursday we have our next RDE Meetup! For the beginning we have:
- Guile Debugger PoC.
- Project Documentation and the Next Actionable Steps.
- New Features of suitbl Testing Library.
- Niri - Next Default WM for RDE?

But usually there are other nice and cozy freeform discussions on #guix#rde #guile #emacs #wm and stuff.

Full announce and link to the call is here:

https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-announce/%3C87bjnq4xjb.fsf@trop.in%3E

On Thursday we have our next RDE Meetup! For the beginning we have:
- Guile Debugger PoC.
- Project Documentation and the Next Actionable Steps.
- New Features of suitbl Testing Library.
- Niri - Next Default WM for RDE?

But usually there are other nice and cozy freeform discussions on #guix#rde #guile #emacs #wm and stuff.

Full announce and link to the call is here:

https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-announce/%3C87bjnq4xjb.fsf@trop.in%3E

Published a new post on regular expressions in Guile Scheme:

https://www.futurile.net/2025/05/09/guile-scheme-regular-expressions-for-guix/

Guix packaging often involves using regex to alter sources. So understanding this is really useful - a deep dive to cover all the parts of Guile's POSIX Extended Regular Expressions implementation.

This is part 1 covering basic literal matching, character sets, POSIX character classes and backslash shortcuts. Two further posts on the way!

Been working on it since May (now Sept) 😅

#guix #guile #regex

Published a new post on regular expressions in Guile Scheme:

https://www.futurile.net/2025/05/09/guile-scheme-regular-expressions-for-guix/

Guix packaging often involves using regex to alter sources. So understanding this is really useful - a deep dive to cover all the parts of Guile's POSIX Extended Regular Expressions implementation.

This is part 1 covering basic literal matching, character sets, POSIX character classes and backslash shortcuts. Two further posts on the way!

Been working on it since May (now Sept) 😅

#guix #guile #regex

A couple new features and several bug fixes that people contributed over the past 2+ years (!).

#Guile

A couple new features and several bug fixes that people contributed over the past 2+ years (!).

#Guile

tendency in classical #Lisp is to use lists to represent everything, and then to browse them “by hand” using ‘car’, ‘cdr’, ‘cadr’, and co. There are several problems with that style, notably the fact that it is hard to read, error-prone, and a hindrance to proper type error reports.

#Glean code should define appropriate data types (for instance, using ‘define-record-type’) rather than abuse lists. In addition, it should use pattern matching, via #Guile’s (ice-9 match) module, especially when matching lists.

(define snarfed-variable
(@@ (my-project module-b) snarf-this-variable))

Though of course violating the abstractions of modules, there be dragons.

You might also consider putting a parameter in one module that's set and pulled from there.

In the future #guile on irc.libera.chat or the guile-user mailing lists are better places to ask these things typically!

Question for #guile #scheme kings and queens.

I have a module A [(define-module A ….) ] and module B that's code-generated (not macros-way the writing strings to file way) that has [#:use-module A] statement in it.

At some procedure part of module A I want to import and use one variable from module B. I want it to happen only EXACTLY when this branch of code is called.

Is that even possible? Circular dependency = ⚰️ ?

Any #guix #guile #bonfire #spritely hackers at #why2025 ? In case there's interest we could organize a session to craft a Guix package or to setup a Bonfire instance on the Guix System or plan how to goblinize the web or anything really just to chill and get to know each other.

Any #guix #guile #bonfire #spritely hackers at #why2025 ? In case there's interest we could organize a session to craft a Guix package or to setup a Bonfire instance on the Guix System or plan how to goblinize the web or anything really just to chill and get to know each other.

After a few weeks of work: a #GNOME session running on the #shepherd!

This implementation in #guile is completely independent of systemd and can run on any init system!

Thanks to @AdrianVovk for their help :)

#Guix will need this for GNOME 49, since the original GNOME session dropped the non-systemd implementation. Source code at https://gitlab.gnome.org/noe/gnome-session-shepherd

After a few weeks of work: a #GNOME session running on the #shepherd!

This implementation in #guile is completely independent of systemd and can run on any init system!

Thanks to @AdrianVovk for their help :)

#Guix will need this for GNOME 49, since the original GNOME session dropped the non-systemd implementation. Source code at https://gitlab.gnome.org/noe/gnome-session-shepherd

• Did you know that Guile's metacommands are comming to Arei soon?
  - That we already have an incredibly useful guile stack traces viewer?
  - That Ares now works with stable version of Guile and doesn't require guile-next?

  No? We got you covered:

  https://youtu.be/VUnY1LY4Las

  https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/guile-ares-rs
  https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/emacs-arei

  Join the discussion:
  https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-discuss

  #guile #scheme #repl #guix

• Did you know that Guile's metacommands are comming to Arei soon?
  - That we already have an incredibly useful guile stack traces viewer?
  - That Ares now works with stable version of Guile and doesn't require guile-next?

  No? We got you covered:

  https://youtu.be/VUnY1LY4Las

  https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/guile-ares-rs
  https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/emacs-arei

  Join the discussion:
  https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-discuss

  #guile #scheme #repl #guix