Is anyone out there working on it?
Ask HN: Is there a [blazing fast] alternative to homebrew for macOS yet?
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#2uv
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#4Nix
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#5For someone whose needs are generally met with homebrew, what are its major issues (aside from speed)?
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#6What’s wrong with home brew?
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#7What’s wrong with home brew?
Bulky and slow
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#8What’s wrong with home brew?
Bulky and slow
Sorry if this is obvious, but when I do `brew install sassafras`, the bulk of the time between hitting enter and being able to run sassafras is downloading and installing. The overhead of Homebrew seems very minimal. Is the slowness coming from a side of Homebrew that maybe I don't see very often?
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#9Macports might be worth considering
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#10I see two people mentioning speed - is Homebrew doing something inefficient?