As one understands with time and a bit of experience, keeping track of the whole bunch of #dependencies necessary to handle daily when doing digital hardware design may reveal as an error-prone task. And yet, this is not to speak about regressions, incompatibilities and most important, #reproducibility of results. Luckyly enough, this is precisely the problem that #guix intends to solve, in an elegant, minimalistic and open way, using only #freesoftware.

Digital hardware design implies dealing with a lot of scripts, configurations, packages, project files, documentation, specifications, bibliographies, data sheets, software, etc. and, of course, a lot of code. Each one comes with its own version history. This is not a problem, as we have #git. But when it comes to #dependencies between different sets, how do we handle the complexity ?