You don't have to use brew. And if you aren’t a developer making software, you don’t need to do anything. If you are a developer, there are many ways to get th

You don't have to use brew. And if you aren’t a developer making software, you don’t need to do anything. If you are a developer, there are many ways to get the software you need for development. Apple is saying they’re just not going to provide it on client machines by default — which is probably fine because honestly, more often what happens is the version Apple has on the machine is old or missing newer parts anyway. I guess you could argue Apple should make their own package manager, but they just don’t want to spend the time and energy on that when they want to focus on Mac and iOS software rather than UNIX software.