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Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (... by 72deluxe on Thursday June 11, 2015 @10:55AM (#9700065)
I use xcode and use wxWidgets, but I grab these manually and compile them myself. I also use the Android SDK and NDK, cppcheck cloc etc like you

I didn't realise that they could be kept up to date with homebrew?? Is that the case?

Last time I looked at MacPorts (and perhaps homebrew) I saw it as a porting of BDS/GNU tools to OSX and therefore making the OS more Linuxy to my mind. I wanted a clean break from Linuxland when I moved to OSX, hence I removed MacPorts etc. (Additionally the ported software all ran under X and not Quartz so it didn't really fit in; also, the fetched packages and compiled systems were massive in size which I didn't appreciate on a laptop that shared space with recorded audio and video etc. so space was at a premium).

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Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (... by ascendantlogic on Thursday June 11, 2015 @11:57AM (#9700450)
Homebrew is really the default package manager. You don't need it, per se, but for the vast majority of people it'd be like trying to set up a Linux system without using apt-get or yum: an exercise in pain.
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Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (... by 72deluxe on Friday June 12, 2015 @04:46AM (#9704695)
That'll explain my early Debian experiences (installing from DVD and attempting to use dpkg exclusively) and my Slackware experiences then...
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