I've been using Ansible + Homebrew + Vagrant/VirtualBox for the past couple years, and am now able to provision a new Mac for myself in about an hour (with all

I've been using Ansible + Homebrew + Vagrant/VirtualBox for the past couple years, and am now able to provision a new Mac for myself in about an hour (with all my apps and settings in place for development) with a good internet connection. See: https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook Once you start using VMs and/or containers for your development, you'll stop worrying about environments and breaking things :)