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I love brew. But I have heard a lot of complaints against it, and arguments that Nix (and probably Guix) is better. I tried it once, and had a tough time gettin
by sn41 8y ago
I love brew. But I have heard a lot of complaints against it, and arguments that Nix (and probably Guix) is better. I tried it once, and had a tough time getting my old scripts to find the exact versions. I gave up on Nix. Can someone eli5 why Nix-like approaches are far superior to systems like brew?
- splintah 8y agoNix is just way more reliable than Homebrew, because it does not use system tools, but rather builds the dependencies by itself (including, for example, a C compiler). Furthermore, dependencies will not be overwritten if a different package requires the same dependency, but another version of it, so packages don’t break each other.