For me it’s been an indispensable tool for years and years. Virtually all of the “issues” I’ve had with Homebrew have been rooted in user error or missing versions of packages. And when you install Homebrew using the simple script on the site it pretty much Just Works out of the gate. There are tons of packages, many of which have multiple versions it’s rare that you can’t find what you need. The two things I like most about Homebrew are its comprehensiveness and its ease of use. You can see my current Home Manager configuration in the lucperkins/nix-home-config repo. Home Manager has enabled me to establish a fully declarative approach to managing my laptop environment, including my dotfiles. I recently switched from Homebrew to Home Manager, the Nix -based user environment manager created by Robert Helgesson, and I’ve been extremely pleased with the results so far. It’s served me admirably all these years and I’ve even written some Homebrew recipes.īut I’ve become convinced that there’s a better way-or at least a way that suits my needs better. Don’t get me wrong: I have nothing against Homebrew, the macOS package manager that most devs who run Apple laptops use on a near-daily basis.

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