mise is great with running multiple versions of a package, something I've found not very seamless with brew.

Directory specific tools (versioned if necessary) that are managed in declarative fashion is great.

I use Brewfile too. Still prefer some stuff to be managed by brew. For example the browsers, App Store apps (managed via mas[1])

[1] https://github.com/mas-cli/mas

Another recommendation for mise, in my case it has already fully replaced brew, stow and direnv since I started using it this January, and it has many more features I'm not using yet (secret management, tasks, automation, ...), all from a single rust binary. Also, unlike homebrew/linuxbrew, the install path for apps can be set to anywhere and is fully portable (it's all relative symlinks).

So far I never had any issue with it or any backward incompatibilities when upgrading, despite the very frequent releases and constant new features. The developer also seems very security minded (he immediately added a "minimum release age" feature for all apps when the trivy github action debacle was made public)

I started using fnox in my workflow (still very lite use) and it's great.

Oh! I thought it was a wrapper around brew so you could list all your tools in one place, but you’re right, it bypasses homebrew altogether. Nice.

I’ve recently started using mise to manage dotfiles, including its own config, and sync them on all my systems. Now I can easily have all the same packages installed everywhere. I am loving mise a lot these days.

The best thing about mise is that it's very easy to get exactly what you want, and remove it when you don't want it anymore

TIL. Thanks for that!

i benchmarked it locally a few weeks ago and it's much faster than homebrew 7

how much faster is kind of a useless metric: it's so highly variable on which command and things like network speed, expect 2x-1000x faster depending on what we're talking about