mindlessly chanting “tools”
That's what you were doing in the first place. Instead of evaluating and trying new things, you are putting them in an imaginary cycle, ignoring any actual value that they brings.
Also Rust has been on your "stage 2" for 10 years. It's now widely used in multiple mainstream operating systems for both components and drivers, driving part of the world's internet stack, and is used to build many of those "shiny and new tools".
Currently it's a long chain from an early version of GCC to the latest one, then mrustc (in C++) which can compile rustc 1.54.0.
I assume that you do know that tools improve objectively in the cycle and are making a joke on purpose.
Because it gives the wrong impression that it is not proprietary, just like how you are making this exact mistake.
You can use Nix on Guix System and vice versa, but it's like installing them as a package manager on a foreign system. The store and packages currently are completely isolated between the two, although there's a very early plan for a common store interface.
No, monadic interface is used to programmatically access the store instead of being used to define packages. Packages are pure in Guix.
Guix uses Guile everywhere. Nix uses string interpolated Bash and Perl for anything impure.
Now what do you think?
Fyi, it's now available on nixos.
Nobody has mentioned that Guix is readily available on NixOS right now? Add a line to your config and it's ready to go. Compatible with everything else.
Typst. Much easier to setup and learn than TeX based solutions with similar capabilities.
I think there's no need to stick with one particular language. It benefits to learn more languages and bring the "good parts" of their design into your code whatever you are writing it in.
Btw It happens that I've learned a bit of RISC-V, with Rust.
Did you just assume that those languages exists since the dawn of computing? Or they run the world as long as they came to existence and were never "the new thing"? You are just contradicting yourself at this point to defend yourself from anything you don't want to accept.