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I'm pretty sad it doesn't explore Nix as it's superior in isolating and doesn't require root.

Getting started: https://medium.com/scientific-breakthrough-of-the-afternoon/...

How much effort was put into making the whole isolation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73mnPBLL_20

There is even a declarative way to setup darwin process management: https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin

/second Nix on OSX. In addition to your reasons, it doesn't depend on the Mac community for growth and support as Homebrew and MacPorts do. Regardless how many OS X users use it, its bread and butter is NixOS and the Linux server community.

Does nix on osx allow you to manage/upgrade native osx packages?

I thinks so, e.g. `nix-env --install --attr nixpkgs.emacsMacport`. But there isn't a huge selection of native macOS GUI apps.

Sorry for missing Nix! I have almost zero experience with it outside of hearing that it existed, and MacPorts has been working fine for me, so I didn't go any further than that :( I'll have to try it out sometime; it's nice to know there are a couple of other options for macOS if I'm ever feeling underserved.

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