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Flox vs Homebrew
The same facts for both, read from GitHub every night, and the relation a person reviewed.
| Fact | Flox | Homebrew |
|---|---|---|
| Language | Rust | Ruby |
| Licence | GPL-2.0 | BSD-2-Clause |
| Stars | 4.2k | 50k |
| Latest | v1.18.2 | 7.0.9 |
| Last push | 2026-10-17 | 2026-10-19 |
| Release cadence | about 10 days between releases | about 5 days between releases |
| Active contributors | 24+ commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days | 44+ commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days |
| Flags | none | none |
How they relate
Flox replaces Homebrew. Alternatives to Homebrew →
PartialPer-project environments on Nix with a catalog of packages and versions.
Flox
- v1.18.22026-10-14Updates the bundled Nix to 2.31.6 to address the October 2026 Nix/Lix security advisory. On multi-user installations —…
- v1.18.12026-10-07Deactivating an environment that was activated in the current shell no longer prints profile-scripts-deactivate is not…
- v1.18.02026-10-06Setting options.activate.upgrade-notifications = false in a manifest (with schema-version = "1.18.0") turns off upgrade…
- v1.17.02026-09-22flox develop [<package>] opens a development shell for a Nix expression build, with the package's build inputs on PATH…
- v1.16.02026-09-08Flox 1.16.0 introduces a new manifest schema 1.16.0 that includes the service fields depends-on, shutdown.timeout-secon…
Homebrew
- 7.0.92026-10-08formula: extract commit for goreleaser flags
- 7.0.82026-10-05test-bot: skip bottles for unsatisfiable formulae
- 7.0.72026-09-28Reconcile records for removed resources
- 7.0.62026-09-21Revert "Use InfluxDB v3 API for analytics reporting"
- 7.0.52026-09-21Reject redundant minimum macOS dependencies
Flox
✓ signed The latest release, v1.18.2, carries a signature GitHub verified.
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Homebrew
✓ signed The latest release, 7.0.9, carries a signature GitHub verified.
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