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I'm amazed they're not sponsored by Apple themselves, or at the very least major mac-forward Dev houses.
If it wasn't for Brew, macOS would have no chance against Linux as a dev platform.
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I'm amazed they're not sponsored by Apple themselves, or at the very least major mac-forward Dev houses.
If it wasn't for Brew, macOS would have no chance against Linux as a dev platform.
The deprecation of Intel support is agressive! Every Mac enthusiast I know who uses a Mac as a server uses their old machines, which are pretty much all Intel. We'll lose support from you guys a year before Apple! I know supporting Intel is an ordeal and a choice, but I'm firmly on the camp that Homebrew should find a way to maintain Intel support as long as possible.
> We'll lose support from you guys a year before Apple! If only Apple put a fraction of its resources towards maintaining something like homebrew (or paying the people who do), maybe the situation would be different.
Apple could’ve made something like this, or at least pay you handsomely for making Macs better to use.
I have switched my full OS-level dev env to https://mise.jdx.dev/ from Homebrew+pipx+npm, initially as an experiment but found out that it actually works amazingly well. Many things get installed directly from GitHub releases or a corresponding package manager (uv, pnpm, go get ...), zero glue code to "repackage", zero version lag. You can install any arbitrary version of a package, even multiple ones at once, and dy…
The big drawback: having Claude complain every couple of hours that the new worktree is untrusted; or having to prefix a bunch of commands with `mise exec …` is annoying as well. A global alias for all shells would be nice.
Fantastic work Mike and team, though I’m still a little confused about cask upgrades.
Does homebrew still do that insane thing when you want to upgrade a single package it tell you "hold my beer" and starts installing postgres and some obscure python version?
Are you referring how it does a `brew upgrade` when doing a `brew install`? It should tell you how to disable that whenever it happens: > Adjust how often this is run with `$HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS` or disable with > `$HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1`. Hide these hints with `$HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS=1` (see `man brew`).