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I’ve never not had permissions to download a dmg; I wouldn’t say most Mac developers…

Yes. There are lots of us on enterprise controlled systems and can only install apps with homebrew.

"most"? I'd say that's actually an extremely weird and rare restriction.

Not sure about "most," but I have this exact restriction at work. I don't think it's extremely rare.

Interesting! Do you know of any other Electron apps that can be installed via Brew?

I think he’s referring to a managed/corporate provided Mac machine.

yes absolutely talking about that.

There are lots of them. You should checkout “brew cask”

Postman, mattermost, 1Password most of it can be installed by brew and they using electron