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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by one-punch on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:22PM (#26038685)
> I hate that brew is good enough that it’s got some kind of local maximum such that there’s no replacement forthcoming.

You may be interested in trying out nix for package management [1], or even for configurations and providing development environments (see my other comment [2]).

[1]: https://builtwithnix.org/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26038614

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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by novok on Friday February 05, 2021 @01:19PM (#26039450)
When I tried nix on my mac a while back, it took forever to install basic things, had very verbose logs, was far more complicated and was missing packages. Is it still like that?
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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by ris on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:57PM (#26041074)
Nix on macos only got a pre-built binary cache a couple of years ago - before that, yes, almost everything had to be built from the ground up.
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Re:Homebrew 3.0 by soraminazuki on Saturday February 06, 2021 @06:46AM (#26045931)
Not my experience at all.
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