HomeBrew VS winget-cli

Compare HomeBrew vs winget-cli and see what are their differences.

HomeBrew

🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) (by Homebrew)

winget-cli

WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface). (by microsoft)
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HomeBrew winget-cli
1278 283
38,997 21,928
1.6% 1.6%
10.0 9.3
7 days ago 6 days ago
Ruby C++
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License MIT License
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HomeBrew

Posts with mentions or reviews of HomeBrew. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.

winget-cli

Posts with mentions or reviews of winget-cli. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-19.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing HomeBrew and winget-cli you can also consider the following projects:

Chocolatey - Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows.

spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.

asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

alt-tab-macos - Windows alt-tab on macOS

osxfuse - FUSE extends macOS by adding support for user space file systems

Docker-OSX - Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers.

ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,200+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

nvm - Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions

chromebrew - Package manager for Chrome OS [Moved to: https://github.com/chromebrew/chromebrew]