I've been meaning to try out Nix for probably years. I work in vfx and large facilities have particular needs that most packaging systems don't support, but th

I've been meaning to try out Nix for probably years. I work in vfx and large facilities have particular needs that most packaging systems don't support, but there's a huge about of investment that can be leveraged (dependency resolution, caching). I did a fresh install of macOS with Sierra and decided to use Nix instead of Homebrew this time around. So far I've only started reading through the docs and only have a few things installed; git, vim, tmux. What are your thoughts about using it as a Homebrew alternative? I've been using Homebrew for years and have been a huge fan so far. I often look at formulas when trying to build things from scratch on Linux.