Comment by perrygeo

Don't think of nix-darwin as an alternative to homebrew. Por que no los dos? You can run homebrew (declaratively!) via nix-darwin, and I think they complement each other quite well.

I stick to nixpkgs for most of the foundational system tools, lsps, build tools - basically anything that works in the terminal and is fully open source. For everything else (zoom, slack, vscode, firefox, etc) I use homebrew packages. The combo gives you options and is a strict superset of what you can do with homebrew or nixpkgs alone. Best of both worlds really.

The article I used to help set up, in case this helps anyone: https://davi.sh/blog/2024/01/nix-darwin/