The #guix survey's results are out!
Posting things I found interesting!
1. Guix has a fantastically committed community
We've never done a survey before, so I was really worried about how many would take part. Over 900 participants did so!
Even more amazing - 150 people took part who were previous users or contributors! Thank-you for taking the time.
Thanks all!
It means the results are a great sample. Read the posts:
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/guix-user-and-contributor-survey-2024-the-results-part-1/
@futurile One upside to Guile Scheme I didn't see mentioned in the survey that's huge for me (though I've only dipped my toe into #guix thus far), is the simple "not a DSL" aspect.
Too many tools use DSL's unnecessarily, which just adds cognitive debt. A relatively minimalist general purpose language is IMO usually friendlier + more rewarding of the time learning it. And when it's a #lisp, you can (if you're a hipster) get going pretty quickly even if it's a dialect you haven't touched before!
@jaawerth Nice! Yes, I don't recall a specific comment from someone setting that out - people identified "Guile and Scheme are cool" but I guess the benefit of it being a general language rather than a DSL was implicit.
@futurile
Fair, it probably is, implicit, but I can't resist calling out the upside as long as so many other tools keep DSLing me 
@janneke @jaawerth Yeah - in a lot of my blog posts I've put that you don't have to know Guile to use Guix.
I think the Guix functions are so good you can use it as a DSL with no understanding of the surrounding Scheme ... and then when you're more advanced you have the power of Guile to do all the cool things!