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HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year

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Re: HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year

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Post by Scarbutt »

trengrj wrote: post #56

It is weird how small our global tech tribe is. I would estimate I download tmux via homebrew once a year on average. It is possible 112,000 represents a good estimate of all mac carrying tmux users in the world [*]. For comparison this is roughly the same number as employees at Apple. Assuming these stats aren't opt in.

For another view, I'm a mac user, but prefer to use all those tools via a linux VM, either local, remote server or from a VPS. Also, not everyone doing development in macos uses homebrew.

Re: HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year

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Post by ephl »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #23
apeace wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't accomplish that with the -g glob flag?

$ rg -g l foo No files were searched, which means ripgrep probably applied a filter you didn't expect. Try running again with --debug. Empirically not! :) EDIT: I see, you have to do "rg -g '*.l' foo". Well, that's a bit silly. Why force people to put asterisks inside of single quotes on the command line? Asterisks have a specific meaning in a shell setting. It's five times longer than -G l, the ag equivalent. EDIT:…

If you're using bash you don't need single quotes:

  rg -g*.l foo

Re: HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year

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Post by jcrben »

cat199 wrote: post #51
jcrben wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People should install stuff like their db with docker or vagrant anyhow. It'd be annoying to keep your app's db version in sync with the homebrew package.

People should install stuff like their db with homebrew anyhow. It'd be annoying to keep your app's db version in sync with the docker or vagrant package.

If you use vagrant or docker, the idea is to match the deployment server, which is probably Linux. So you'll be installing (using the OS package manager - something like apt or nix) whichever version is installed for your server OS.

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Post by memco »

bluedino wrote: post #52
alexashka wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That makes sense, so it's to generate thumbnails/resize uploads. Could it be some node package that has a dependency on imagemagick? What I'm having trouble wrapping my head around is so many people being aware of imagemagick and reading through it's documentation to learn how to use it.

It was a really popular gem requirement and lots of Ruby developers use Macs/Homebrew

Also pretty popular in the PHP world. Judging by the number of PHP installs on the list I'd say a lot of people are using it for development.

Re: HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year

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Post by memco »

romanr wrote: post #20
alexashka wrote: post #12

Can someone explain the popularity of imagemagick on there? As in, are that many people tinkering with graphics via the command-line?

A lot of stuff at the top of the list is requirements/pre-requisites for other packages, for example wget is in top place used by other packages to download stuff.

Personally, I opted to download it manually since I prefer it over curl for some things.

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Post by kalleboo »

guitarbill wrote: post #68
alexashka wrote: post #12

Can someone explain the popularity of imagemagick on there? As in, are that many people tinkering with graphics via the command-line?

batch image resizing. batch image conversion. thumbnailing. making a montage of screenshots or graphs. many, many use-cases. i use it all the time, it's just more convenient than pixelmator/gimp/photoshop for those tasks.

I always end up using my old standby GraphicConverter (been using it since 1996...) for that kind of stuff since with imagemagick there always seems to be some kind of voodoo you have to invoke once you have a PNG alpha channel, images with EXIF rotation tags, PDF files, color profiles, etc.

Re: HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year

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Post by kalleboo »

X-Istence wrote: post #4
evantahler wrote: post #2

MySQL. Still more popular than Postgres.

Many people on MacOS use Postgres.app for their PostgreSQL needs. http://postgresapp.com

And and I'm sure many people use the mysql.com installer for MySQL https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/
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