Homebrew is used by millions of devs, generally because the advantages are worth it. You can't use pacman, apt or pkgsrc on image based distros. And nix is a b

Homebrew is used by millions of devs, generally because the advantages are worth it. You can't use pacman, apt or pkgsrc on image based distros. And nix is a big headache. Of course anything that can easily run in a container is better, but I use brew for the stuff that doesn't and have few problems.