[marxisttemp]

Even on macOS, brew is wildly inferior to MacPorts; to be fair, brew is “blessed” by Swift Package Manager whereas MacPorts is not, but this is ironic given the guy behind MacPorts both worked at Apple and designed the original FreeBSD ports system.

[devops99]

That's the very weird thing about the little universe within Apple's macOS, there are pockets of very high quality here and there, next to "what the fuck are you guys even doing?", and a Unix core that's been effectively bastardized, abandoned, and frankenstein'd

Instead of Compton a short ride from Beverly Hills it's like the houses from those two wildly different hoods all stacked in a repeatedly alternating sequence.

[marxisttemp]

I think the overall quality level on Macs is leagues above anyone else, even the UNIX stuff (I personally prefer the BSD utils to the GNU ones, which pretty much anyone else running POSIX stuff is using unless they’re daily-driving an actual BSD.

I just don’t get why Apple would hire Jordan Hubbard for their UNIX team, see him implement a very well thought out version of the standard package manager of all time that he also wrote, and then decide to use brew as their blessed package manager for their various open source releases, .systemLibrary in Swift packages, etc.