If you have OSX, it's much more reliable and better option than homebrew, so the...

mdaniel · on June 19, 2023

Just for your consideration, the network effect is very real with package managers, too:

https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=23.05&show=awscli2 is 2.11.27 (even on the "unstable" channel), versus https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/awscli#default that is 2.12.1, which correctly is the most current (https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/tags)

soraminazuki · on June 19, 2023

This is incorrect. Nixpkgs updated to 2.12 on the same day as Homebrew.

- Nixpkgs (3 days ago): https://nixpk.gs/pr-tracker.html?pr=238031

- Homebrew (3 days ago): https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/133968

Your link refers to the 23.05 stable release channel, so it'd likely stay at 2.11. Package updates don't get backported to stable channels except for fixes. Additionally, the package search page probably isn't updated in real time so the version might be slightly out of sync.

Nixpkgs is generally quick to update packages because Nix encourages automation.