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I'm wondering if Macs would be as successful with developers without homebrew.

• rafadc 10y ago
  No
• OskarS 10y ago
  If it wasn't for Homebrew, I would not develop on a Mac.
• panglott 10y ago
  Mac OS X came out in 2001, and there was a lot of immediate adoption by people using emacs and bash: It became the largest consumer distro of a Unix-based system overnight. (look for all the old articles about how to upgrade from tcsh to bash). Homebrew was successful because there were developers who wanted it. Is the Mac more successful as a developer platform because of it? Possibly.
  • tangue 10y ago
    It's fun to read all of this. I re-read John Siracusa reviews and some old blogs and yes, until Snow Leopard OSX was THE cool hackers' OS. And when Apple didn't invest in power users anymore, individuals took over.