homebrew-php vs homebrew-openjdk

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homebrew-php		homebrew-openjdk
	Project
5	Mentions	2
2,343	Stars	1,824
-	Growth	-0.2%
9.9	Activity	0.0
6 days ago	Latest Commit	8 months ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

homebrew-php

Posts with mentions or reviews of homebrew-php. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-25.

Installing PHP 8.0 on MacOS: Overcoming Disabled Versions
1 project | dev.to | 6 Feb 2024
PHP 8.1 is here
6 projects | /r/PHP | 25 Nov 2021
PHP has been removed in macOS Monterey
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jun 2021
Does anybody use MacBook Air M1 to develop PHP
3 projects | /r/PHP | 14 Jun 2021

But if you want very new PHP (8.1) there is https://github.com/shivammathur/homebrew-php + https://github.com/shivammathur/homebrew-extensions
A minimal Drupal 9 local development environment
7 projects | dev.to | 28 Feb 2021

Homebrew PHP (Shivam Mathur) to switch local PHP version on Mac OS

homebrew-openjdk

Posts with mentions or reviews of homebrew-openjdk. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-28.

SSL errors everytime I fetch or push from/to Github
2 projects | /r/MacOS | 28 Sep 2022

➜ brew update fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/adoptopenjdk/homebrew-openjdk/': LibreSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to github.com:443 fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/': LibreSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to github.com:443 ...
How to choose between multiple JDK's on MacOS?
7 projects | /r/java | 29 Aug 2021

The adoptopenjdk project has instructions: https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/homebrew-openjdk

What are some alternatives?

When comparing homebrew-php and homebrew-openjdk you can also consider the following projects:

DBngin - DB Engine

SDKMan - The SDKMAN! Command Line Interface

homebrew-core - 🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

jenv - Manage your Java environment

php-docker - Docker Official Image packaging for PHP

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

homebrew-extensions - :beers: Homebrew tap for PHP extensions

homebrew-zathura - Homebrew formulae to build Zathura on Mac OS X

homebrew-php-ext - 🐘🌐 Core PHP extension formulae not suitable for Homebrew/core

PHP Mess Detector - PHPMD is a spin-off project of PHP Depend and aims to be a PHP equivalent of the well known Java tool PMD. PHPMD can be seen as an user friendly frontend application for the raw metrics stream measured by PHP Depend.

homebrew-proxmark3 - Homebrew tap containing proxmark3 software/firmware