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Developers describe Chocolatey as "A command line application installer for Windows *". It is based on a developer-centric package manager called NuGet. Unlike manual installations, It adds, updates, and uninstalls programs in the background requiring very little user interaction. On the other hand, *Hex** is detailed as "Package manager for the Erlang ecosystem". Hex is package manager for the Erlang VM. This project currently provides tasks that integrate with Mix, Elixir's build tool.

Chocolatey and Hex can be categorized as "Package Managers" tools.

Hex is an open source tool with 567 GitHub stars and 118 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hex's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Hex has a broader approval, being mentioned in 4 company stacks & 9 developers stacks; compared to Chocolatey, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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What is Chocolatey?

It is based on a developer-centric package manager called NuGet. Unlike manual installations, It adds, updates, and uninstalls programs in the background requiring very little user interaction.

What is Hex?

Hex is package manager for the Erlang VM. This project currently provides tasks that integrate with Mix, Elixir's build tool.

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NuGet

A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension.

Bazel

Bazel is a build tool that builds code quickly and reliably. It is used to build the majority of Google's software, and thus it has been designed to handle build problems present in Google's development environment.

Scoop.sh

It installs programs to your home directory by default. So you don’t need admin permissions to install programs, and you won’t see UAC popups every time you need to add or remove a program.

npm

npm is the command-line interface to the npm ecosystem. It is battle-tested, surprisingly flexible, and used by hundreds of thousands of JavaScript developers every day.

Homebrew

Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple didn’t. Homebrew installs packages to their own directory and then symlinks their files into /usr/local.

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