This is somewhat impressive, but can you reverse a binary tree?!
https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin...
Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
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Re: Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
#282I 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…
Mise does support docker cli - that’s how I use it with Colima - what’s not working for you?
Re: Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
#283Thanks for all the hard work. We are not many [1], but Homebrew has been a great way to quickly bootstrap an environment in immutable Linux distributions. Note that certain operating systems such as Universal Blue's Bazzite (1.28%), Bluefin (0.49%) and Aurora (0.28%) default to bundling Homebrew [2]. [1] https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/os-version/365d/ [2] https://github.com/ublue-os/brew
I've been using it under linux and have been very (surprisingly?) happy with how it runs especially when compared with current package managers.
Re: Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
#284Thanks for producing such an amazing piece of software. Most of my Mac installations are based on Homebrew, but I have to rely on version management tools like Pyenv or nvm for Python and Node. Wish there was some standard 'Homebrew' way to install multiple versions of node, php and Python
I switched from brew to https://asdf-vm.com/ for this very reason.
I don't understand how devs don't use a tool that makes multiple versions of everything possible.
Re: Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
#285I 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…
Mise does support docker cli - that’s how I use it with Colima - what’s not working for you?
Last time I used it it was missing some features (like compose for example), but nothing a LLM can't fix (needed just some symlinking).
But it's not "it just works" yet.
Re: Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it wasn't for Brew, macOS would have no chance against Linux as a dev platform.
Apple developed — and for many years afterwards, hosted —- MacPorts.
Apple employees did. Not Apple themselves. As for hosting, it was hosted on an equivalent of SourceForge, where many other opensource projects unaffiliated with Apple were.
And we all know how MacPorts failed to actually gain any significant momentum.
Re: Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Depending on the particular distro, only certain core packages are likely to get updates on LTS releases. All LTS distros fix only some core packages sporadically as no one is able to back port all the patches esp. since most packages do not use CVEs and just fix bugs on the go. "Stable" for non-rolling distributions simply means "horribly broken and outdated".
It’s not horribly broken any more than your toaster is for not needing constant updates. Though I do have such a longstanding love/hate relationship with Ubuntu because of this. It is why it runs everywhere and just works (even powers the WSL2 defaults), but everything it provides also always so very far behind I end up recompiling so much important stuff by hand.
> It’s not horribly broken any more than your toaster is for not needing constant updates.
I don't know where this sense of "stable" in the community comes from. Software isn't perfect and gets fixed all the time. Yes, there are packages with different maintained stable branches that you can pin for your LTS distribution but this is by far the minority. For the other stuff you constantly have to work around missing features or existing bugs. E.g., why do I have to compile "jq" by myself just because the outdated package crashes on certain inputs?!
Re: Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
#288This is somewhat impressive, but can you reverse a binary tree?! https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin...
Yeah, I remember this story too. Crazy, it most definitely feels like the organization missed an opportunity.
Re: Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
#289Internal JSON API being default is the real improvement here. brew update has been too chatty for years, cutting that down makes a big difference.
Re: Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
#290Hi Mike, I’m @bfontaine on GitHub (I helped maintain Homebrew in ~2014-2016). I’m always impressed at your longevity as a maintainer; it’s been like what, 16+ years you’ve been maintaining Homebrew and you’re still here, still shipping new features! Thank you for everything!
17 in September. Thanks for all your great work at the time! Hope you’re well <3
thank you mike