unprivileged container management, fully integrated with other Guix System services, is coming: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/72740 .
disclaimer: I’m the submitter
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Awesome evolution. I really coukd have put that to use the last weeks.
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Would this be the preferred way to run something like node?
I’ve been using eval $(guix shell --search-paths) for creating environments but for node I avoid this approach and use guix containers instead (losing access to the node binaries Edit: I meant access from Emacs) .
This sounds great. Thanks for your work on it.
I must offer a small correction: Your email to the mailing list begins, “Dear Guixers,” but clearly it should say, “Dear Guix…” 
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I’m not sure what’s best for emacs since I’m not really good with it, this is a replacement for the docker-service-type with the difference that it allows to run containers without “real” root (i.e. with subuids)
Ah, thank you for pointing that out! I’m not an English native speaker and I always wonder what a nice beginning can be in the most gender neutral way but I clearly not that good.
Is “Dear Guix” something that sounds good to a native speaker to address a group of people without implying their pronouns? In Italian I’d say something roughly translatable with “Dear people” but I don’t think it sounds good for English native speakers. What do you think?
Guix sounds the same as the plural of geek (geeks) which is a characterization of people, that is gender neutral. So works for me, I guess.
As dgr pointed out, it’s somewhat of a joke, since Guix is canonically pronounced like geeks.
If you don’t dig that, you could just say, “Hi,” or, “Hi friends,” something like that.