[cmm]

And even more than that: I think Guile specifically would long have been abandoned and forgotten about if not for Guix.

[davexunit]

While Guix is the Guileverse's biggest and most successful project, a lot of the compiler/VM work that happens in Guile happens pretty independently because Andy Wingo just likes to hack on Guile. Guile would still be here, but the community would be smaller.