[jillesvangurp]

I ran into this the other day with ubuntu (on a windows laptop with the linux subsystem) opting for node version 8 instead of 10.

One of those annoying things that is valid from a "lets keep things backwards compatible" point of view that ends you up with the wrong versions of everything you care about as a developer. I fixed it by uninstalling node and then installing nvm and then doing a nvm install 10. Of course having per tool custom hacks around "your distribution comes with the wrong version of everything you care about, 100% guaranteed" gets old pretty quickly. Brew fixes this on Mac.

On most servers on the other hand, you should not be installing developer tools or runtimes at all and use something like docker instead. Installing stuff like node.js, python, ruby, etc. via the default package manager is almost always the wrong thing to do on both development machines and production machines.

Speaking of docker, having something like brew on a lightweight image could be a pretty awesome way of installing what you need without relying on downloading tar balls and other madness that you find in a typical Dockerfile. Why reinvent that wheel?

I haven't come across linux brew. Sounds like a good idea. Merging the two ecosystems sounds like a better one. Having that on windows as well; awesome. Simplifies a lot of stuff developers have to do on different platforms to end up with the same tools.