I use nix & brew as my package managers on macOS.
- Some nice comments on brew and nix package managers
- Entropic - Federated package registry for anything.
- The economics of package management (Lobsters)
- Topgrade - Upgrade everything.
- Repology - Monitors a huge number of package repositories and other sources comparing packages versions across them and gathering other information.
- Managing Developer Environments with Conda (2020)
- Developers shouldn't distribute their own software (2020)
- Spack - Flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
- rebuilderd - Independent verification of binary packages - reproducible builds.
- dripip - Opinionated CLI for continuous delivery of npm packages.
- PRIVJS - Implement access control to your npm packages.
- distri - Linux distribution to research fast package management. (Code)
- My Year With GNU Guix (2020)
- Linux package managers are slow (2019) (Lobsters)
- pkgsrc - Framework for building third-party software on NetBSD and other UNIX-like systems, currently containing over 22,500 packages.
- Conda - OS-agnostic, system-level binary package manager and ecosystem. (Docs)