TLDR; How to setup MacOS with Nix. Context Being a long time Linux user, I wanted to know if I can reproduce my development environment on a brand new ARM 64 MacOS machine. Package Manager MacOS doesn’t have a builtin package manager, which is quite confusing when coming from the Linux world. I already tried MacPorts and Homebrew in the past but was not convinced by them. Nix This time, I wanted to try something new, namely Nix, which I already use in other projects to setup my development environment (via nix-shell).