I wouldn't call Nix 'blazing fast'; I wish Nix evaluation were 10x as fast as it is. But for many things it's much faster than Homebrew and has a lot of nice pr

I wouldn't call Nix 'blazing fast'; I wish Nix evaluation were 10x as fast as it is. But for many things it's much faster than Homebrew and has a lot of nice properties besides. Pkgsrc is more conventional, and its package set is smaller. But the binary distribution of it from Joyent is is consistently quite fast, and the package quality in Pkgsrc is high. It's a fast, well-behaved package manager, and probably the closest thing to what you're looking for unless your main concern is macOS GUI applications.