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Perhaps you don't understand the use case. It's often the only option for users to install packages on an HPC system, as on such systems you cannot install things as root so the system package manager is infeasible. The only other possibility is Anaconda, but that has its origins as a Python tool and only has a fairly limited set of non-Python related packages.

Semi-relevant (userspace dev tools)

Asdf – language tool version manager

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33323261 (3 days ago)

why

Not necessarily doubting you, but I am curious to hear why you think this. On what basis do you suggest that it's not safe?

What do you feel is unsafe about Homebrew?

For starters: auto-updating everything before installing anything (HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE default 0).

Coupled with uninstalling before determining whether or not the OS version is still supported (not sure if this still can happen, or ever happened on Linux)... fun times all around.

that's it?