The Nix package manager on macOS isn't as smooth as Homebrew. Still, Nix is better in many ways. More broadly, even if it isn't as popular, Nix is a viable too

The Nix package manager on macOS isn't as smooth as Homebrew. Still, Nix is better in many ways. More broadly, even if it isn't as popular, Nix is a viable tool and also encourages us (developers) to seek out repeatability in our dependencies.