Why “Homebrew” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
When Homebrew first came out, I found its antagonistic marketing off-putting. The website used to read "MacPorts driving you to drink?" I always found its takeover of /usr&…
by vor_ · Oct 8, 2026
Homebrew is rushing to drop support for Intel Macs despite the fact Intel Macs received a major version of macOS from Apple only 12 months ago. Check out MacPorts. It was the or…
by vor_ · Oct 8, 2026
All good, and that’s exactly the answer to ‘why is this a new project rather than a homebrew PR’, which is what this comment chain is about.
by fooker · Oct 8, 2026
Maybe Homebrew is reliable, but do not assume it is safe. It has always operated on the honor system for contributions and code review. Every maintainer is able to merge anythin…
by lrvick · Oct 8, 2026
This isn't just a replacement for the homebrew UI, it's for the CLI too, so comparison invalid. I see the dev behind it has a whole 4 years of github experience - only the most…
by anonreplier · Oct 8, 2026
i benchmarked it locally a few weeks ago and it's much faster than homebrew 7 how much faster is kind of a useless metric: it's so highly variable on which command and things li…
by jdxcode · Oct 8, 2026
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Homebrewing mainly refers to small-scale, non-commercial manufacture of a drink, typically beer. Read more on Wikipedia