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FWIW the author of Homebrew is also working on a next generation package manager in rust: https://pkgx.dev/ (beware facebook tracking and infinite AI slop)

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Wow. They really don't want anyone to take this project seriously! This is actually making me reconsider having brew installed even...

https://github.com/pkgxdev/pantry/pull/5360#issuecomment-233...

Is this the guy who was complaining that he didn't get hired by Google even though he made brew? Maybe there were personality issues at play...

I checked out his X account and yep, that's the guy.

If you search for "max howell google interview" it comes up, if you search for "max howell alphabet interview", no dice.

This has nothing to do with Homebrew. It's a different project.

Yeah, but the relationship makes my spidey senses tingle even if it's not accurate.

Consider re-attuning your spidey senses away from inaccurate things!

Is there something horrible I'm missing here? It's just a not so well designed page of links to Github repos.

Edit: Oh, the Github issue, yeah that's screwed up.

Creator, not current maintainer. Homebrew is currently maintained by over a dozen people, myself included.

Oof. Those AI images really harm the credibility of the package manager.

I both like and dislike them. First thing I searched for was the prompts, but I haven't found them yet.

As for Facebook tracking I 100% dislike that.

What’s the deal with the cautious warnings? Is homebrew being replaced by software developed using a “vibing coding” or what have you?

if you see the issue I linked, there are a lot of thumbs up / thumbs down in the comments, it's not just me =)

I think I lack context enough that even the link doesn't make it very clear to me.

mxcl is the owner of this other project and also the original creator of Homebrew. Someone asked politely to remove a broken package from the list, mxcl gave an oddly combative response, then you see the rest.

AI slop, but also for all the imagery. The early 00s called, and want their large icons back. This is the worst landing page I’ve seen—almost screams crypto-scam.

Also in Rust, haha.

I finally looked up the GitHub repo found some context about the website: https://github.com/pkgxdev/pantry/issues/5358

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