[guywithabike]

Why is it funny? Homebrew is the de facto standard terminal packaging tool for macOS.

[AceJohnny2]

<cries in MacPorts>

[TMWNN]

I also use MacPorts, but certainly have often noticed that Homebrew has some package that MacPorts doesn't.

I guess there's nothing stopping me from moving to Homebrew other than familiarity.

[photonbeam]

I hear a lot about people moving to nix-darwin, is it popular or am I showing my own bubble

[armadsen]

I’m a full-time Mac and iOS developer, have been for almost 20 years, and this is the first I’ve heard of it. Might just be my bubble, but I don’t think it’s a huge thing yet. (I’m going to check it out now!)

[jallmann]

I use nixpkgs on MacOS, is nix-darwin is a different project?

I love Nix but it probably has too many rough edges for the typical homebrew user.

[firecall]

I've never heard of it until now, but will check it out! :-)

[pyinstallwoes]

I never even heard of nix-Darwin. Interesting.

[sevagh]

Apple should do like this library, re-release Homebrew with their own name on the README and people would lap it up.

[ramesh31]

>Why is it funny? Homebrew is the de facto standard terminal packaging tool for macOS.

It's funny because a multi-trillion dollar company can't be bothered to release a native package manager or an official binary repository for their OS after decades of pleading from developers.

[randomdata]

They released "App Store" for the average Joe. We can all agree it is not suitable for power users, but at the same time what would power users gain over existing solutions if they were to introduce something?

[astrange]

They did, they sponsored MacPorts. (And then Swift Package Manager.)

[Tagbert]

So you want them to Sherlock Homebrew?

[etse]

Well, without charging for it, right?