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by dekz 4282 days ago
> It is also a whole C program and Homebrew is just ruby scripts.

And that's a problem?

I would argue that it's a feature. Due to Homebrew being written in Ruby, it has easily allowed over 4,000 contributors [1]. Recipes are easy to read and inspect for verification purposes.

What is the advantage of C over Ruby?

[1](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/graphs/contributors)