HomeBrew VS Visual Studio Code

Install Vagrant using Homebrew:

Thanks for the kind words <3

Rewrite in Rust: never :)

A non-Ruby frontend may be possible but, fundamentally, the Formula DSL is Ruby and we couldn't feasibly move to another language without breaking backwards compatibility with everything.

The "update tons of stuff you never asked for": we're working on this: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/19202

Performance in general: we're doing what we can to improve it wherever possible. Ruby makes this harder but it is getting better rather than worse at this point.

> I wonder if you can get away with not doing parallel downloads, but just keep the sequential downloads going in the background while it is installing a package?

I could be wrong, but I believe multiple people, including maintainers, have looked into exactly that :-)

(I also need to correct myself: there is some work ongoing into concurrent downloads[1]. That work hasn't hit `brew install` yet, where I imagine the question of concurrent traffic volume will become more pressing.)

[1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/18278

Install glibc and patchelf using brew (Homebrew), or build from source, or use a prebuilt binary (if available). This guide uses brew. Also you can see this.

Install brew

In past personal projects, and in my most recent role, I've used Docker for dependency management to avoid the "works on my machine" scenario. I also just like keeping dependencies off my machine, but for this project I opted not to use containers given my lack of dependencies. I used Homebrew for all my needs :).

Install Homebrew if it's not already available on your computer.

# ./launch.sh: #!/bin/bash if ! command -v brew &> /dev/null; then echo "❌ Homebrew is not installed. Install it from https://brew.sh/" exit 1 fi if ! command -v docker &> /dev/null; then echo "⚙️ Installing Docker..." brew install --cask docker fi if ! command -v php &> /dev/null; then echo "🐘 Installing PHP..." brew install [email protected] fi

Homebrew installed (https://brew.sh).

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code is a free code editor that relies on community plugins for support across various languages and frameworks. It also has an AI offering, Copilot, that provides code completion and it just added its own agent. VSCode supports multiple LLMs, but initially, there seemed to be a preference for ChatGPT, in part given its early lead and no doubt influenced by the fact Microsoft was an early investor in it. However, that relationship seems to be fraying.

Explore different MCP Clients too! You can continue using ollmcp as we did earlier, or try other clients like Claude Desktop, Visual Studio Code, and more to see how different environments interact with your server.

All vims and emacses can have undo-tree (as a plugin iirc). Many devs use it.

Vote/read-up here for the feature on Zed: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/17455

And here on VSCode: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/20889

Example : Claude Desktop , Amazon Q , VSCode Agent mode

Better Tooling – Enhanced autocompletion, refactoring, and navigation in IDEs like VS Code.

To do this, I used VS Code, an extension called Cline configured in Act mode, and Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 03-25, which is amazing. I made two attempts. The first one using a simple and very generic prompt, and a second one using a more detailed prompt. Let’s talk about them.

VS Code: Download VS Code

I visited code.visualstudio.com and clicked the big, inviting "Download for Mac" button. After downloading, I opened the .zip file, dragged the VS Code app into my Applications folder, and launched it.

For this challenge we will use Visual Studio Code and Anthropic Claude (Claude 3.7 Sonnet). Also, Go lang must be installed. I am running Fedora Linux.