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Let’s be real, nobody wants to use Homebrew. It just fills a niche for a tool that’s missing on MacOS. People use homebrew because they search “apt-get yum for
by kindfellow92 9y ago
Let’s be real, nobody wants to use Homebrew. It just fills a niche for a tool that’s missing on MacOS. People use homebrew because they search “apt-get yum for Mac” and it’s the first thing that pops up.
In other words, the day that Apple bundles a native CLI package manager with macOS, nobody is going to stick with Homebrew for its amazing UI/UX.
I don’t think we should be praising this guy for being a usability mastermind. I think homebrew is successful because he was someone willing to do the grunt work of building an apt-get clone on Mac. Paradoxically this actually reflects poorly on him because a talented developer prefers to spend time on more intellectually stimulating projects, not grunt work.
- lmz 9y agoHomebrew was not the first. There was Fink and MacPorts before it. I would guess it became prominent because of the UX? Sold my mac before Homebrew was around.
- cmiles74 9y agoHomebrew, at the time, was the first to try and build against the libraries that came with MacOS. For a lot of packages this was a huge time saver as it would be compiling a third the amount of code that MacPorts was churning through.
- pawelkomarnicki 9y agoAre you kidding? Homebrew is basically the first thing I install on OS X as a developer; nothing beats the simplicity of this tool, especially if you prefer to do actual work rather than messing around with compiling etc.