Homebrew is the most popular package manager on MacOS, and for good reason. However personally, I believe that Nix is more powerful.
Homebrew is the most popular package manager on MacOS, and for good reason. However personally, I believe that Nix is more powerful.
Nixpkgs are the most up to date of any package respiratory source
It is likely that you were using the current ‘stable’ channel that does not have the very latest packages. The ‘unstable’ channel does have the very latest packages and is what I think most people use.
I totally agree, I wish it was easier to learn.