alt Hacker NewsThank you, his arguments totally makes sense, only the part that makes me icky is:
> There’s a new vibe coded Homebrew frontend with partial compatibility and improved speed every few weeks.
People are free and probably do this because it is slow. Alternatives often are not a bad thing.
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> Alternatives often are not a bad thing.
Exactly. I’ve been using MacPorts for ages and I love it.
/me ducks.
Point noted! I took it as a tongue-in-cheek phrasing of "agentically coded". Hopefully, that's right.
I don't see where he said it's a bad thing, or even implied it. As I see it, he did imply that superlatives like THE FASTEST PACKAGE MANAGER aren't worth much in this environment.
Yeah, tbh homebrew is slow as fuck. It literally took 30 minutes to install aws cli on my 2020 mbp. I will happily flock to every new version that's faster.
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Since I enabled HOMEBREW_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY, downloads have improved for me to the point where download speed is no longer an issue.