HomeBrew VS spack

Hey, I would strongly advise going with yt-dlp instead as YouTube-dl is outdated. Their GitHub page is here https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp . I personally have it installed with Brew, follow the instructions on this website https://brew.sh and after it’s installed, just run “brew install yt-dlp”. To download videos just run “yt-dlp “URL HERE”” (make sure to include the quotation marks around the url. Tell me if you need any help!

https://brew.sh/ Paket Manager für OSX

Definitely get Homebrew going - let's you install bunches of apps from commandline and just overall helps streamline the whole installation process.

Well yes but actually no (https://brew.sh)

As I was tracking the above performance regression, I discovered an open-source container runtime for MacOS/Linux called Colima. It is pretty much a Docker Desktop drop-in replacement and also offers VirtioFS (on Ventura - i.e. MacOS 13.x or newer). You don't need to uninstall Docker Desktop, just stop it and install Colima e.g. through Homebrew:

Command Line Tools: iTerm 2 alternative to the default Terminal homebrew mas homebrew bundle

Is there any reason to use Ninite instead of Homebrew?

You have homebrew homebrew install

Homebrew (Free) I won't get into it, I've already mentioned everything about brew Here (If someone hasn't removed it)

GitHub repo: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew

At the end of the day a distro or a package manager can decide to do this (typically with patchelf). For example Spack enables this now under a config option: https://github.com/spack/spack/pull/31948. Nix is considering to support it, but the relevant issue is already open for about 5 years, so unclear if they will do it.

If you want to keep up with compilers (and other tools) without waiting for distro support, you might want to take a look at spack: https://github.com/spack/spack. Together with something like Lmod or Environment-Modules, you can have multiple versions of different compilers without any of them getting in each others way. It's sort of meant for hpc centers and is well maintained by Livermore labs, but works well on a dev workstation too.

The package *management* story is still not as good as it could be, but there is a tremendous amount of high-quality third-party C++ "packages" out there--for some sufficiently loose definition of a package. If you use conan as your package manager, you have access to (at least) these. Though, in an HPC setting I would probably turn to spack first (which was developed by expert HPC tooling folks and is already used in very large/complex HPC deployments).

Trilinos is a pain to install and get working, I recommend using Spack or a similar tool to deal with it.

Use tools like easybuild or spack to maintain the software and the modules at the same time.

Consider: https://github.com/spack/spack

Spack: package manager for HPC (users, developers, and admins). https://github.com/spack/spack. You can run it on your laptop. We have over 1,000 contributors so far; adding a new package or simple feature is a good way to get started. If you need help or pointers, join us on slack at spack.slack.io; there are 1,700 people on there to answer questions.

gh is available via Homebrew, MacPorts, Conda, Spack, and as a downloadable binary from the releases page.

Get comfortable with environment modules (see e.g., lmod), and check out installation systems like EasyBuild and Spack.

You might as well try Spack, it's Python + a dsl to customize builds in a single line. Guix package descriptions look very daunting to me.

[1] https://github.com/spack/spack/