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  1. HomeBrew

    1,347 Homebrew VS HomeBrew

    🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

  2. InfluxDB

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  3. mise

    83 Homebrew VS mise

    dev tools, env vars, task runner

  4. artichoke

    32 Homebrew VS artichoke

    💎 Artichoke is a Ruby made with Rust

  5. pik

    10 Homebrew VS pik

    A new lossy/lossless image format for photos and the internet

  6. CocoaPods

    55 Homebrew VS CocoaPods

    The Cocoa Dependency Manager.

  7. Homebrew-cask

    56 Homebrew VS Homebrew-cask

    🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries

  8. fpm

    38 Homebrew VS fpm

    Effing package management! Build packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity.

  9. SaaSHub

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  10. pantry

    7 Homebrew VS pantry

    pkg manifests (by pkgxdev)

  11. Linuxbrew

    2 Homebrew VS Linuxbrew

  12. Berkshelf

    0 Homebrew VS Berkshelf

    A Chef Cookbook manager

  13. Modulation

    1 Homebrew VS Modulation

    Modulation - explicit dependency management for Ruby

  14. rebar3_hex

    0 Homebrew VS rebar3_hex

    Rebar3 Hex library

  15. shards

    3 Homebrew VS shards

    Dependency manager for the Crystal language

  16. sps

    2 Homebrew VS sps

    Rust based package manager for macOS

  17. CRelease

    0 Homebrew VS CRelease

    Application to simpify versioning and releasing crystal projects. (by elorest)

  18. atlas

    1 Homebrew VS atlas

    The Atlas Package cloner. It manages an isolated workspace that contains projects and dependencies. (by nim-lang)

  19. cart

    1 Homebrew VS cart

    Minimal, unprivileged package manager for MacOS (by heywoodlh)

  20. gpm

    0 Homebrew VS gpm

    Barebones dependency manager for Go.

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  • Sapphire: Rust based package manager for macOS
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2025
    Found it because I was curious: https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/commit/29d85578e...

    Here are the comparisons to other package managers:

    > Packages are brewed in individual, versioned kegs. Then symlinks are created to give a normal POSIX tree. This way the filesystem is the package database. Everything else is now easy. We are made of win.

    vs MacPorts registry which used its own homebrewed (lol) Receipts files in 2009, and now uses a SQLite DB: https://guide.macports.org/chunked/internals.registry.html#i...

    > I wouldn't worry about it not being root. We don't install anything base enough for it to be a concern (unlike MacPorts or Fink).

    vs MacPorts installs to `/opt/local` as root.

    > Why Not MacPorts?

    > =================

    > 1. MacPorts installs its own libz, its own openssl, etc. It is an autarky.

    > This makes no sense to me. OS X comes with all that shit.

    > 2. MacPorts support Tiger, and PPC. We don't, so things are better optimised.

    There is no “Why Not Fink?” section.

    And because I didn't know the word autarky: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/autarky

  • Need Help Installing Yarn
    1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 14 Oct 2021
    For Homebrew though, some tips from here might help if you want to try getting that install to work instead. https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/issues/15077

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The primary programming language of Homebrew is Ruby.

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  4. Homebrew VS Linuxbrew
  5. Homebrew VS Berkshelf
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