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Homebrew vs NuGet: What are the differences?
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; NuGet: The package manager for .NET. A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension.
Homebrew and NuGet can be primarily classified as "Package Managers" tools.
Homebrew is an open source tool with 18.2K GitHub stars and 4.08K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Homebrew's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Homebrew has a broader approval, being mentioned in 6 company stacks & 25 developers stacks; compared to NuGet, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 15 developer stacks.
Pros of Homebrew
- Clean, neat, powerful, fast and furious3
Pros of NuGet
- Best package (and maybe only 1) management for .NET0