nixpkgs for Mac has never really been a priority, what's there is mostly contributed by a handful of people. It's certainly not got the same level of testing an

nixpkgs for Mac has never really been a priority, what's there is mostly contributed by a handful of people. It's certainly not got the same level of testing and use as e.g. Homebrew. It works wonderfully on Linux - especially under its own distribution, NixOS, which I run on my laptop.