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satvikpendem 4 hours ago

Thank you for your work on Homebrew, I use it every day. On the matter of speed and parallel downloads, how does this release compare to Zerobrew [0]?

On another note, to commenters here, I've been using brew bundle with the Brewfile more and more these days as a declarative list of all user packages installed, should I just move to Mise or Nix instead? What are the benefits and drawbacks? Last time I used Nix on my MacBook a few years ago it seemed to brick my whole system so not sure what that was about.

[0] https://github.com/lucasgelfond/zerobrew

JamesSwift an hour ago | parent [-]

Most nix users still use brew for casks on mac. Using brew bundle as your interface to it makes things almost seamless, so its not too icky overall.

eg I manage my Brewfile declaratively with home-manager, and then run this on file change

        HOMEBREW_NO_UPDATE_REPORT_NEW=1 HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 brew bundle --file="$HOME/Brewfile" --cleanup --no-upgrade