Here are mine: age age-plugin-yubikey bat cmake fd ffmpeg fnm fzf gh git gnu-getopt go jq lazygit lsd neovim pinentry-mac qrencode reattach-to-user-namespace restic ripgrep rustup-init starship tmux tree ykman yt-dlp yubikey-agent zoxide zsh zsh-autosuggestions zsh-completions
macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
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Re: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
#2Re: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
#3Re: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
#4I'm not sure the story behind all of those, but I use several of those CLI tools regularly. brew install __ usually gets me what I went when I'm on a Mac and a linux tool is missing when I try to run it.
I'd like brew to handle per-user installations better (you can with a flag, but it'll still have path issues with some installs), but I'm thankful for it overall.
Re: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
#5autoconf bumpversion cocoapods doxygen ffmpeg gnu-tar gobject-introspection gradle guile llvm make node@10 nvm openapi-generator openjdk@11 openjdk@17 subversion yarn
Re: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
#6Re: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
#7I also don't offhand know if those "Build Errors" are their bottle build errors, or it reports all build errors
I'm not ignoring your question, but it's also meaningless to post any such thing on HN since
$ brew list -1 | wc -l
682Re: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
#8Re: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
#9It has its criticisms, but it’s easy to use and fast enough for the amount I need to use it.
Re: macOS users: what have you installed with brew?
#10I try to avoid installing anything with brew, because I can't install a new package without first upgrading all my other packages, which often leads to one of them breaking in not-so-fun ways (e.g. an openssl upgrade breaking my Python installation).