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by photonbeam 783 days ago
I hear a lot about people moving to nix-darwin, is it popular or am I showing my own bubble
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I’m a full-time Mac and iOS developer, have been for almost 20 years, and this is the first I’ve heard of it. Might just be my bubble, but I don’t think it’s a huge thing yet. (I’m going to check it out now!)
I use nixpkgs on MacOS, is nix-darwin is a different project?

I love Nix but it probably has too many rough edges for the typical homebrew user.

Its a different complementary thing. It lets you define your macos settings the same way you would on nixos
it's worth noting for Homebrew users that it also has a nice built-in module for managing a Homebrew installation by generating a Brewfile for you. So you can transition at your own pace, if you like
I've never heard of it until now, but will check it out! :-)
I never even heard of nix-Darwin. Interesting.