[tra3]

Thanks for your thoughts. I worded my question poorly, I suppose, but you got my meaning.

I keep seeing nix mentioned alongside complaints about it's maturity but that seems par for the course for something new, doesn't it? Until a tool reaches critical mass sharp edges are to be expected.

I'll look into nix again when I have an appropriate use case.

[xpe]

The Nix package manager on macOS isn't as smooth as Homebrew. Still, Nix is better in many ways.

More broadly, even if it isn't as popular, Nix is a viable tool and also encourages us (developers) to seek out repeatability in our dependencies.