(There's still low handing fruit, but it's not like it was a few years ago where `brew list` took seconds to run. It now runs nearly instantaneously for me locally, like most of the other happy path commands.)
However, the speed increase coincided with my upgrade to an M-Series laptop, so it's possible I just presumed there was a significant hardware speedup in the time we're talking about.
I fucking hate homebrew.
I hate the fact that the project still has the attitude of "sudo is le hard and we are le tired."
The project people are assholes.
The maintainers are often well behind current releases.
It maintains a cache of every installed version for no good reason wasting ~10GB or more of my SSD space.
When it breaks it's impenetrable trying to figure out how it broke, there's nobody to ask for help, the documentation sucks, and the fastest thing is just to wipe the whole fucking directory and start over.
I could go on. I don't know a single person that likes using homebrew - it's just the package manager everyone resigned themselves to use.
> I hate the fact that the project still has the attitude of "sudo is le hard and we are le tired."
> The project people are assholes.
Have you considered that approaching us like this isn't productive and doesn't make anyone remotely interested in helping you?
Years ago I worked with someone who strongly disliked brew because it leaned far too heavily on magic. I was okay with it because it seemed to work well. Brew still uses magic but now it just seems like I'm fighting it every single step of the way. I am le tired.
Actually hearing about them (instead of just cursing at us) is genuinely helpful, and we genuinely appreciate it.
cmon, `brew cleanup --prune=0` is just part of the muscle memory by now.