[pseufaux]

On the advice of numerous HN threads, I switched from Homebrew to Nix, and gave it a 6 month shot. Nix was great at first: simple, fast, elegant. However, I quickly realized that the simplicity was a facade that even a casual user would eventually be forced to remove. And what you find behind the facade gets really, complex really quickly.

What I appreciate about Homebrew is that in years of using it, I have never felt the need to dive deeply into its inner workings. For the most part, it just works. I can access the utilities I need to do my work and reliably keep them updated. Homebrew has its problems for sure, but the tooling has improved immensely over the recent years. So thank you for your work!!!

Also side note, I just recently discovered the brew bundle command's --global flag. It basically let's you use a declarative format globally installed taps, formula, casks, and vscode extensions. I can add the .Brewfile to my dotfiles repo to sync across machines. Though, it's not really what the bundle command is meant for, it sure beats manually copying down and installing the list of formula.