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> It is also a whole C program and Homebrew is just ruby scripts. And that's a problem? I would argue that it's a feature. Due to Homebrew being written in Ru
by dekz 12y ago
> It is also a whole C program and Homebrew is just ruby scripts.
And that's a problem?
I would argue that it's a feature. Due to Homebrew being written in Ruby, it has easily allowed over 4,000 contributors [1]. Recipes are easy to read and inspect for verification purposes.
What is the advantage of C over Ruby?
[1](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/graphs/contributors https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/graphs/contributors)