What Julia Evans thinks about developer tools
Writes jvns.ca, a blog explaining networking, debugging and Linux internals in plain language and comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
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2 dated positions, 2023 to 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Julia Evans has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our reading · no longer heldNix is worth switching your day-to-day package management to, over Homebrew.
No longer holdsI’ve mostly switched back to Homebrew, nix was interesting but overall I think it’s not worth the complexity for me
SaidI’ve mostly switched back to Homebrew, nix was interesting but overall I think it’s not worth the complexity for me
- 17 months earlier
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Their wordsI’m also still not sure how much I like nix – it’s very confusing! But it’s helped me compile some software that I was struggling to compile otherwise, and in general it seems to install things faster than homebrew.