mac-app-util

I recently tried out mac-app-util¹, which fixes some of the usual pain with GUI apps. In conjunction with brew-nix², it looks like it might be most of what I'll need to move away from having Nix manage Homebrew for me. I don't use very many GUI apps so now that the installation piece is taken care of, I can just package everything I use if it really comes down to it. That'd be worth it for me just to get rid of the painfully slow `brew` invocations that lurk in my activation scripts. -- 1: https://github.com/hraban/mac-app-util 2: https://github.com/BatteredBunny/brew-nix

I actually wrote a script which creates a trampoline launcher for this. It has its flaws but it solves the spotlight issue, and supports pinning to Dock across updates. Available as a plug-and-play module for nix-darwin and home-manager: https://github.com/hraban/mac-app-util