title: macOS Package Managers: Using Nix alongside Homebrew?
body: <p>I was wondering if there would be any issues with installing Nix and Homebrew on the same system?</p>
  
  <p>I know Homebrew tends to install things all over different directories, but from what I have read, Nix is very clean. If I understand this correctly, Nix installs it's packages all within one single directory.</p>
  
  <p>So if this is the case, could I try running them both side-by-side? I would be careful not to install too many of the same packages from both places in (ie. I wouldn't install grep, htop, or whatever else from both Homebrew and Nix and if I did I would take precautions).</p>
  
  <p>Side-note: This would not be permanent. I am thinking about switching from Homebrew to Nix (just to mix things up a bit), and I wanted to try Nix on my main machine before taking the leap (if at all). I know I could just try Nix on a VM, but I would not get the same experience unless I tried it on my main system. So it would be nice to install it along Homebrew and give it a shot before going through the pains of removing Homebrew and replacing all my Homebrew packages with Nix packages.  </p>