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Mike McQuaid
Package Management
Learnings from
Homebrew
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Mike McQuaid
https://mikemcquaid.com
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Why?
🤔
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brew install
works: no-one cares
😑
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brew install
breaks: we're fucked
🤬
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my toilet
works: no-one cares
🚽
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my toilet
breaks: shit everywhere
💩
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Act 1
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5.0.0
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"Homebrew is slow"
🐢
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"Bundler is slow"
🐢
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"Cargo is fast"
🏎
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"uv is fast"
🏎
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"Bundler is fast"
🏎
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"$brew in Rust is fast"
💩
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🧑🧑🧒🧒 HOMEBREW_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY=auto
📲 HOMEBREW_USE_INTERNAL_API=1
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👩🏫 brew prof
🛜 ghcr.io
🥊 bash
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"Homebrew is fast(er)"
🏎
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Act 2
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Support
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"Homebrew compiles"
🐢
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"Homebrew extracts"
🏎
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Homebrew on macOS x86_64
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Homebrew on macOS x86_64
Homebrew on Linux x86_64
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Homebrew on macOS x86_64
Homebrew on Linux x86_64
Homebrew on macOS arm64
Homebrew on Linux arm64
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Homebrew on macOS x86_64
Homebrew on Linux x86_64
Homebrew on macOS arm64
Homebrew on Linux arm64
Homebrew on ...?
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Homebrew on macOS 26
Homebrew on macOS 15
Homebrew on macOS 14
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Homebrew on macOS 26 x86_64
Homebrew on macOS 26 arm64
Homebrew on macOS 15 x86_64
Homebrew on macOS 15 arm64
Homebrew on macOS 14 x86_64
Homebrew on macOS 14 arm64
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Homebrew on macOS 26 x86_64
Homebrew on macOS 26 arm64
Homebrew on macOS 15 x86_64
Homebrew on macOS 15 arm64
Homebrew on macOS 14 x86_64
Homebrew on macOS 14 arm64
Homebrew on Linux x86_64
Homebrew on Linux arm64
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"Homebrew is slow"
🐢
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Homebrew on macOS 26 arm64
Homebrew on macOS 15 arm64
Homebrew on macOS 14 x86_64
Homebrew on macOS 14 arm64
Homebrew on Linux x86_64
Homebrew on Linux arm64
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26-09
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Homebrew on macOS 27 arm64
Homebrew on macOS 26 arm64
Homebrew on macOS 15 arm64
Homebrew on Linux x86_64
Homebrew on Linux arm64
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"Homebrew
hates me"
👴 🖥 💾
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"Homebrew
cannot support me"
👴 🖥 💾
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📲 --no-quarantine
⚠ odeprecated
⛔ odisabled
🔥 deleted
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https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustc/platform-support.html
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https://docs.brew.sh/Support-Tiers
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https://mmq.lol/nothing
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Act 3
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Money
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Money
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Code
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Code
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Humans
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self promotion
🤮
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https://mmq.lol/robot
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https://mmq.lol/funnel
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https://mmq.lol/economics
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https://mmq.lol/no
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https://mmq.lol/nothing
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Acts
1⃣ Default to fast
2⃣ Publish support reality
3⃣ Optimise for maintainers
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You!
🏎 Make something faster
🩼 1 sentence "supported"
🙅 Set maintainer boundary