Brioche – A new Nix-like package manager
This is a project I've wanted to write for a long time now. I really love the ideas from Nix and I still have a ton of respect for the project, but Nix-the-language never felt intuitive to me and I wanted something with more approachable tooling (although this was circa 2016, so I'm sure Nix has improved a lot since then too-- that was before Flakes were around!) Anyway, I started on the current iteration of Brioche about 6 months ago, and I finally cut an initial release. I'd still consider this a "technical preview" version (performance especially is pretty painful, so that'll be a focus…
Brioche – A new Nix-like package manager launched on June 3, 2024 with 168 votes, #282 of 4,672 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Brioche is a package manager inspired by Nix that aims to provide similar reproducible dependency management with a more approachable language and tooling. Created by a developer who appreciated Nix's core concepts but found its language unintuitive, Brioche is released as a technical preview that handles end-to-end package management. The creator notes that performance improvements are a near-term focus, but the tool is ready for testing and evaluation by developers seeking alternatives to existing package managers.
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From the sources
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. I’d consider this release a Technical Preview . Currently, it’s limited to x86-64 Linux only, there’s only a small number of packages, and there are still some outstanding issues, including pretty bad performance issues and bugs in the Language Server Protocol implementation. Brioche isn’t really at the point I’d recommend folks use it for…from brioche.dev
In the maker’s words, at launch
This is a project I've wanted to write for a long time now. I really love the ideas from Nix and I still have a ton of respect for the project, but Nix-the-language never felt intuitive to me and I wanted something with more approachable tooling (although this was circa 2016, so I'm sure Nix has improved a lot since…
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