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Remember that experiment of using @flox.dev to replace Homebrew? Now it's official. flox.dev/docs/tutoria...

You need some serious value add to displace such an ubiquitous tool as homebrew. Flox doesn’t bring it in my case. If reproducibility is crucial to your team, you’d better use VM images.

Reproducibility is one part, but another important feature is scoping packages to specific projects. “flox pull —copy zmitchell/rust” bootstraps every one of my Rust projects. Now I have those tools available if and only if I decide to work on that project. No conflicts with other projects’ tooling.