Looks cool but I wish it were available with other package managers than guix :'( It makes a kinda hard to try out just for fun.
If you just want to try it out you can compile it from source, see <
https://www.gnu.org/software/artanis/manual/manual.html#org3...>.
I know, not an amazing alternative imo as they're also saying it takes a long time. I just wish I didn't need to be all in into Guix to easily play around with such projects, which aside from that, look really cool.
They say it takes a long time to build Guile, the Scheme compiler, not Artanis. I can build guile in less than 2 minutes on my old laptop.