[mplanchard]

Oh yeah no doubt MacOS is a huge pain. We use nix for installing system deps at work, and it seems like once every six months or so something will inexplicably stop working on Mac. Luckily I have an old Mac at home, but the new architecture means that one is becoming pretty much useless now for debugging some of the stuff that comes up.

Still, being able to guarantee everyone working on the project has the same versions of everything is pretty nice. No need to worry about ancient Mac versions of bash or awk or sed or whatever, so we can script confidently.