pkgx
the developer tool to run anything, anywhere
Introducing pkgx - a blazingly fast, standalone, cross‐platform binary that runs anything, anywhere. What’s better than a package manager? No package manager!
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What reviewers say about pkgx
Early adopters praise pkgx for smoothing cross‑platform workflows, automating dependencies, and “just working” across machines—some even replacing multiple runtime managers. Several highlight the GUI’s simplicity, fast updates, and sandboxing that avoids environment conflicts. Users report productivity gains in dev setups, builds, and onboarding new laptops. However, the rebrand from tea to pkgx drew sharp criticism: sudden breakage, inadequate communication, and confusion around expected “brew-like” commands and migration paths. Overall sentiment is strongly positive on speed and convenience, tempered by trust concerns from the transition.
This AI synopsis blends highlights gathered from recent reviewers.
How people rate pkgx
Based on 10 reviews
Recent highlights
I've had some time to use it, and it's just wow! it's very cool! my life is a little easier now
Great product! Using myself, really automate and support my dev process.
It would be nice to be able to set up a fixed (voluntary) monthly contribution amount to distribute among the used packages authors automatically. (I saw that you plan to add some monetization, I’m just suggesting the model that makes sense to me.) Something along the lines of SetApp.
PS There’s a typo on the “open in terminal” image. “S” is missing in the word “constrained.”