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I guess it depends on what kind of developers you think of. Unless you're developing macOS or iOS Software why bother with an inferior software eco system? Brew is a hot mess. MacPorts is slow as fuck.

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Personally I've been using fink for >12 years now, I enjoy being able to use the familiar apt-get and dpkg to manage packages on macOS:

http://finkproject.org/

I even backported the then-current version to MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger) last year. :-)

https://github.com/l1k/fink/commits/branch_0_38_tenfour

I develop backend components that run on Linux servers. The editors, the terminal, the debuggers on Mac OS are pretty good for me. Brew works just fine for my line of work.

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