[joshstrange]

I've never understood the homebrew hate. As an end-user I could not give less of a shit about the underlying implementation but instead I care about how it works for me and having used it well over a decade and often using it "blind" ("Hey, I want cli tool XYZ, let's try `brew install XYZ`, nice! That worked perfectly!") I can say it works amazingly well.

Way too often technical people care more about the pureness of the underlying implementation than they do the end-user experience. I've both worked with and been that person in the past, the person that wants to impose internal implementation limits on the UI/UX. One of the best lessons I've learned is try to make software that behaves how people want it to behave, not necessarily in a way that perfectly jives with how you implemented something on the backend/internally.

I don't know much about the inner workings of homebrew and the best part is I don't have to. MacPorts worked decently enough for me pre-homebrew but it would sometimes break in unexpected ways. Homebrew "just works" in a way that I greatly appreciate.