Show HN: A udev implementation in Guile Scheme

> Nothing is wrong with udev. In fact udev is great, as should be obvious from its 20+ years of service on nearly every GNU/Linux system out there. The rule format it pioneered has stood the test of time and can almost be considered a "standard". > > However, udev is not easily usable on systems without systemd and Linux. This project, like eudev and others, aims to address that. Unlike eudev however, this is a completely independent implementation instead of a "fork".

Re: Show HN: A udev implementation in Guile Scheme

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Post by rahen » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 10:55 AM UTC

I was initially surprised because this is not a good use case for Scheme. The current C implementation is clean and efficient, and I'd rather use Scheme to replace some messy Python code with its dependency hell.

And then I saw this: "As mentioned above, some code has been automatically translated from C to Scheme, using generative AI. This is not creative work, and as such, the authors of Goodev cannot claim copyright for it."

Somehow I wish those tokens would had been more usefully spent on porting code where a sound language could actually make a difference.

Re: Show HN: A udev implementation in Guile Scheme

#7

Post by xedrac » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 1:48 PM UTC

voxelghost wrote: post #4

eisbaw wrote: post #2

503. also Why?

503 seems to be for all of codeberg.org

Codeberg infrastructure needs work...

Re: Show HN: A udev implementation in Guile Scheme

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Post by nemoniac » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 2:26 PM UTC

rahen wrote: post #6

I was initially surprised because this is not a good use case for Scheme. The current C implementation is clean and efficient, and I'd rather use Scheme to replace some messy Python code with its dependency hell. And then I saw this: "As mentioned above, some code has been automatically translated from C to Scheme, using generative AI. This is not creative work, and as such, the authors of Goodev cannot claim copyrig…

Not only that, under rule changes in progress it would not be allowed in Guix, which it would appear to be well suited for.