[renaudg]

OS X has everything an end-user needs already (iLife apps are best of breed on any platform and come for free !), that's the beauty. For the rest there's the seamless App Store.

Now for hackers, you already get a long way with the built-in BSD commands, but one word : http://brew.sh

[Rusky]

Brew leads to the same kind of experience as MinGW on Windows. It's just not as good as the package managers on Linux.