Homebrew's Evolution

Homebrew, the macOS (and Linux) package manager, has had a big year. We've moved away from Git-based updates for most of our packages, moved our analytics to InfluxDB and made many performance improvements. In this talk, I'll look back at the last year of Homebrew and forwards to what we expect to build in the next year.

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1. Mike McQuaid Homebrew ’ s Evolution
2. Background ⏮
6. Mike McQuaid https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid https://mastodon.social/@mikemcquaid https://twitter.com/MikeMcQuaid ☕
7. Install from API 🏎
8. 🙅 git fetch 🫡 curl .json
9. formulae.brew.sh/docs/api/
10. $ unset HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE $ unset HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API $ unset HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS
11. $ brew untap homebrew/core $ brew untap homebrew/cask
12. InfluxDB Analytics 🧐
13. 🔥 Google Analytics 🥳 Self-Hosted EU Analytics
14. formulae.brew.sh/analytics/install/30d/
15. Better Performance 🏇
16. 📉 brew update 📉 brew upgrade 📉 brew fetch
17. github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
18. github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask
19. github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/tree/master/Casks/a
20. Ruby 3.1 🐣
21. $ brew config | grep Ruby Homebrew Ruby: 3.1.4 => /opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/3.1.4/bin/ruby
22. Homebrew.pkg 📦
24. Workbrew.pkg ☕
26. workbrew.com
27. 2024? 😐 Better conflicts handling? 🥉 Better JSON API (v3)? 🥶 Better ABI handling?
28. 2024? 👩🔧 Your pull request? 🐛 Your bug report? 🆕 Your feature request?
29. Questions? 💜 mike@brew.sh