Re: Talk at RSECon26 on Guix and ravanan

[Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>]

Hi Arun,


On Fri, 11 Sep 2026 at 23:50, Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I gave a talk on Guix and ravanan[1] yesterday at RSECon26[2], the Research
> Software Engineering conference. My slides are at [3].

Nice!  Cool.

> [4]: https://www.commonwl.org/

Well, this year is running faster that my capacity to tackle my TODO
list…  As discussed back on Jan. / Feb. I have on my TODO list the item
about the “node” part.  Somehow, this

        make NODE=/usr/bin/node prefix=/usr/local
        make install

doesn’t seem to me the end of the story. ;-) What I had in mind was to
see what could be done with the old standard of ECMAScript implemented
[1] in Guile.  Between a coffee and a beer at Guix Days, Andy answered
that an easier and maybe better solution might be QuickJS [2] – a C
implementation that supports recent standards.

Somehow, it could be nice to embed this into Guile or ravanan instead of
relying on NodeJS.  Bah I don’t know… It’s the item on my TODO list. ;-)

Another item on my TODO list is to try to run some workflows developed
by the CWL community with a drop-in replacement of cwltool by ravanan.
Well, comment on the gap that needs to be filled.

Cheers,
simon


1: https://doc.guix.gnu.org/guile/latest/en/html_node/ECMAScript.html
2: https://bellard.org/quickjs/