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The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
dotfiles
Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-02.
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Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
I also use Nix, and agree with these caveats. My personal experience is that it can be hard to initially set up Nix, but once you do, it's rock solid. It's particularly great for sharing config across machines. Here's my personal dev environment for instance: https://github.com/mjhoy/dotfiles/blob/main/nix/nixpkgs/conf...
proj
Posts with mentions or reviews of proj.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-02.
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Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
Conan can be made to do what homebrew does with minimal effort, I have written some convenience wrappers around it which makes it slightly easier to use for this use case, you can have a look here: https://gitlab.com/aucampia/proj/xonan
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dotfiles and proj you can also consider the following projects:
homebrew-cask-versions - 🔢 Alternate versions of Casks
homebrew-graph - Creates a dependency graph of Homebrew formulae.
opensource.how - Open-source etiquette
PostgresApp - The easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac
pkgsrc - NetBSD/pkgsrc fork for our binary package repositories
arkade - Open Source Marketplace For Developer Tools
nix-dotfiles - Dotfiles for my Nix setup
homebrew-core - 🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)