What is Hex?
Hex is package manager for the Erlang VM. This project currently provides tasks that integrate with Mix, Elixir's build tool.
Hex is a tool in the Package Managers category of a tech stack.
Hex is an open source tool with 917 GitHub stars and 187 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Hex's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Hex?
Companies
6 companies reportedly use Hex in their tech stacks, including Hacker Experience, inkl, and Cinch Financial.
Developers
15 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Hex.
Hex Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Hex?
NuGet
A free and open-source package manager designed for the Microsoft development platform. It is also distributed as a Visual Studio extension.
RubyGems
It is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries, a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them.
Terraform Registry
With Terraform, you describe your complete infrastructure as code, even as it spans multiple service providers. Your servers may come from AWS, your DNS may come from CloudFlare, and your database may come from Heroku. Terraform will build all these resources across all these providers in parallel.
Composer
It is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the libraries your project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them for you.
Elm
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