> Everyone uses brew because they have to, not because they want to.
What?
Homebrew is easily one of my favorite pieces of software. It's the first thing I install on any new macOS or Linux machine.
Almost every piece of software I want to install is easily installable via Homebrew. The versions it has is almost always more up-to-date than what's in apt or yum. On macOS I can install all of my GUI apps with Homebrew Cask.
I have my Brewfile with my dotfiles so that any time I get a new machine it's easy to install everything I need. Just this week I updated my dotfiles to install Homebrew + my common development utilities on GitHub Codespaces. Without Homebrew I'd have a long, long, long script downloading packages from source verifying keys, installing dependencies, and then finally installing some software.
Aside from that, there are alternatives to Homebrew. Install things yourself from source, or use MacPorts.
> Whined about getting asked to do a code exercise at a google interview, bragging about how he made a project in use by X percent of the company's engineers.
My guess is that you support the status quo of software engineering interviews. That's fine, but many don't.
What?
Homebrew is easily one of my favorite pieces of software. It's the first thing I install on any new macOS or Linux machine.
Almost every piece of software I want to install is easily installable via Homebrew. The versions it has is almost always more up-to-date than what's in apt or yum. On macOS I can install all of my GUI apps with Homebrew Cask.
I have my Brewfile with my dotfiles so that any time I get a new machine it's easy to install everything I need. Just this week I updated my dotfiles to install Homebrew + my common development utilities on GitHub Codespaces. Without Homebrew I'd have a long, long, long script downloading packages from source verifying keys, installing dependencies, and then finally installing some software.
Aside from that, there are alternatives to Homebrew. Install things yourself from source, or use MacPorts.
> Whined about getting asked to do a code exercise at a google interview, bragging about how he made a project in use by X percent of the company's engineers.
My guess is that you support the status quo of software engineering interviews. That's fine, but many don't.