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Spack VS GNU Guix

Compare Spack VS GNU Guix and see what are their differences

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Spack logo Spack

A flexible package manager supporting multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.

GNU Guix logo GNU Guix

Like Nix but GNU.
  • Spack Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-13
  • GNU Guix Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-03-26

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My crush on GNU Guix

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  • Review - Building a whole distro on top of a minimalistic language The story of GNU Guix
  • Tutorial - How to Install GNU Guix System 1.1.0 + Review

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Spack and GNU Guix)

Spack

GNU Guix

Front End Package Manager
10 10%
Front End Package Manager
90% 90
Developer Tools
4 4%
Developer Tools
96% 96
Windows Tools
100 100%
Windows Tools
0% 0
Package Manager
9 9%
Package Manager
91% 91

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, GNU Guix seems to be a lot more popular than Spack. While we know about 90 links to GNU Guix, we've tracked only 1 mention of Spack. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Spack mentions (1)

  • Autodafe: "freeing your freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools."
    > Are we talking about the same autotools? Yes. Instead of figuring out how to do something particular with every single software package, I can do a --with-foo or --without-bar or --prefix=/opt/baz-1.2.3, and be fairly confident that it will work the way I want. Certainly with package managers or (FreeBSD) Ports a lot is taken care of behind the scenes, but the above would also help... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

GNU Guix mentions (90)

  • Pkl, a Programming Language for Configuration
    > So what we are missing now is a 500GB framework that can write the config file for the programming language that is writing a config file for the actual program I wish to use. That exists since 1960. It's called LISP. The e.g. https://guix.gnu.org/ uses with great success, the Guile Scheme dialect of LISP, to be precise. And FYI the "framework" is: 
      $ ls --human-readable --size $(readlink $(which...
    - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
  • NixOS: Declarative Builds and Deployments
    > inventing a brand new purely functional language programming language. ISTM that if you dislike that, then there's GUIX. https://guix.gnu.org/ Very briefly, AFAICT, it's "Nix but using Scheme". - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
  • Linux saved my life
    And just wait till you discover Arch Linux, Gentoo, Guix, or NixOS. Source: 10 months ago
  • The nicest web browser of 2023 uses Lisp.
    Https://guix.gnu.org for example. It did load before an update but it doesn't anymore. Source: 11 months ago
  • Java community welcomes kotlin, c/c++ community welcome rust and go and Javascript community welcomes typscript except emacs community who still refuse to welcome gnu guile.
    Is it? Seems to me it's used for some pretty cool stuff, heard of Guix? Source: 11 months ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Spack and GNU Guix, you can also consider the following products

Homebrew - The missing package manager for macOS

NixOS - 25 Jun 2014 . All software components in NixOS are installed using the Nix package manager. Packages in Nix are defined using the nix language to create nix expressions.

Flatpak - Flatpak is the new framework for desktop applications on Linux

Conda - Binary package manager with support for environments.

ST - Simple Terminal - st is a simple terminal implementation for X.

pkgsrc - pkgsrc is a framework for building over 17,000 open source software packages.

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