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> The second you compile one package to get any of those boxes to work, for me, the pro-linux box argument is negated.

This seems a strange things to say considering everyone I know who uses a Mac for dev uses homebrew, which compiles as part of the install.

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Homebrew tries to download a binary for pretty much every package, and only rarely compiles from source.

True. It used to be like that at the beginning, but now it's rare.

The "to get any of those boxes to work" part is, I think, the key part of that quoted statement. Homebrew may compile things (if there is no binary download available), but you don't need Homebrew to make your Mac functional.

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