I still prefer MacPorts over Homebrew. However, like you said, Homebrew's marketing in the form of embedded into tutorials and setup's helped push them to where

I still prefer MacPorts over Homebrew. However, like you said, Homebrew's marketing in the form of embedded into tutorials and setup's helped push them to where they are now. Almost every Ruby on Rails tutorial I've seen in the last decade used Homebrew over MacPorts. I found MacPorts just before Homebrew was a thing. I figure since Mac OS was BSD based, why not go with the traditional portage way. I preferred my optional packages to be installed in /opt. I preferred MacPorts. Sadly, in the last 3-4 years, Homebrew has been leading the charge, adding more bleeding edge package versions and just doing a better job of maintaining the formulas for install. Happy to see it. I think for python/go/ruby devs they will continue to prefer Homebrew simply because the tutorials they learned from prefer it. It's a feedback loop.