Guix on Macintosh?

[Yasuaki Kudo]

Hi!


I started to experiment with VSCode DevContainers, to see if it is 
possible for Linux/Windows/Macintosh users to share the same Linux 
development environment.

https://github.com/yugawara/xeyes

I work at a worker cooperative ( our federation site is here at 
https://patio.coop ) and one thing we have in common is to work from 
various places on the planet and we like having all services that make 
up a (web) application on our laptop computers, etc.

As we all know, the way Docker works means there is horrendous waste on 
hard drives and network.  So I am thinking of using Guix.  However, I 
understand that there is no native support for Guix for Macintosh.

Although I am not terribly sure (yet) how Guix may or may not help with 
script specific packages such as NPM..., my biggest question is how a 
Mancintosh user can take advantage of Guix.

There are quite a lot of programmers with those shiny Mac Laptops...  Of 
course, as a last resort, there must be some Intel emulators for these 
so one can install Linux and Windows on top of them but I wonder if:

* Guix Package Manger can be installed within a Docker Container which 
can be hosted on a Macintosh?

The reason I am asking about Mac in particular is that Windows does a 
decent Linux emulation with WSL2 and my solution would seem to work.  I 
just don't have any Mac hardware so I cannot tell for sure if this is at 
all viable...

If it does, although this might be a little convoluted but I think we 
can use Guix as part of a Docker container that is meant for programmers 
in the same development team.


Many thanks  in advance!!

-Yasu