I don’t feel like I know enough about Nix to manage my own build dependencies with it, but I do feel like I know enough to use Nix as a simple package manager. I use Homebrew on my laptop, and at this point I definitely know more about Nix than I do about Homebrew.1 Why would I switch away from Homebrew? Mostly because I think it will be educational. I don’t really have anything against Homebrew. It works. It has a lot of the packages I want. It does break more often than I’d like – n...| ianthehenry.com