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What is Hex? 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.

What is Homebrew? The Missing Package Manager for macOS. 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.

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

Hex and Homebrew are both open source tools. Homebrew with 18.2K GitHub stars and 4.08K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Hex with 564 GitHub stars and 117 GitHub forks.

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    What is Hex?

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

    What is 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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    What are some alternatives to Hex and Homebrew?
    Git
    Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
    GitHub
    GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
    Visual Studio Code
    Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
    Docker
    The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
    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.
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