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This. At a previous job I ended up writing quite a bit of tooling around installing and updating developer tools, for 1000+ devs. Some things that would have be

This. At a previous job I ended up writing quite a bit of tooling around installing and updating developer tools, for 1000+ devs. Some things that would have been a very easy sale: - private, managed brew repos - linux support - onboarding / workstation setup via Brewfile - maybe a graphical interface for that - enterprise support plan (would have been handy when `/usr/local/bin` stopped being writable some OSX versions back) Eventually a lot of it moved to NPM via artifactory for the ease of publishing & consumption.

SahAssar 5y ago
> linux support What distro are you using that doesn't have a proper package manager? Brew exists precisely because this has been standard for years/decades on linux but OSX hasn't had anything built in.
- ricardobeat 5y ago
  Of course they all do - the desire for good homebrew support (linuxbrew already exists) comes from the ease of writing formulas and scripting in Ruby, it's infinitely easier than packaging for apt / apk. Plus the fact that 80% of developers use Mac, but you can't leave the 20% out in the rain. This is for in-house software, not third party.