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Show HN: Brioche – A new Nix-like package manager
uncing Brioche! Published on By Kyle Lacy I’m super excited to announce the first public release of Brioche! Brioche is a brand new package manager and build tool that builds on top of the best ideas of other package managers, like Nix, Homebrew, and Cargo. It’s designed to be flexible and easy to use, and it leverages TypeScript for fancy typechecking and autocompletions in your build scripts.
There are lots of tools that cover some or all of the use-cases I had in mind for Brioche: Nix, Bazel, Earthly, Homebrew, asdf, direnv, devenv, tea, and too many more to list. Rust and TypeScript are my two favorite languages to write, and I love the fairly low-level nature of working with compiler toolchains (even if dealing with autotools is endlessly frustrating…) But it was this experience that planted the idea for Brioche in my head, and I couldn’t shake the feeling that, starting from scratch, I could design something less quirky than Nix while keeping its best features.
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