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from the same thread ...
"@adrian that reminds me of the story where a sec researcher bought license plate NULL. And got all the traffic violation tickets which could not be assigned to a license plate."
Priceless.
awesome move. hell has frozen!
well done Apple! (assuming there are no exotic tricks in the small details)
TL;DR It is already, for the good and for the bad.
probably the best thing that come from Microsoft in decades
update: has momentum, a huge marketing budget (helps) and the cost of entry way lower than emacs' one (typescript ecosystem a fair bit less exotic than lisps').
performance is OK, really. i remember more than 20yrs ago when one had to use vi, micro emacs and lesser options because emacs was then the resource hog. at same age / stage vscode is way less hungry than emacs then...
sorry OP by this is a clickbait rant from someone who just did not made his homework and ended loosing time and data.
- Homebrew is rolling - always was and never claimed otherwise.
- OTOH for key packages (say databases) it has available versioned bottles. for postgresql one have:
- postgresql@10
- postgresql@12
- postgresql@9.4
- postgresql@9.6
- postgresql (points to latest)
- postgresql@11
- postgresql@13
- postgresql@9.5
In short, none of what happened to the OP is due to inherent flaws in homebrew... QED.
Well, well... that may not be true for much longer. just take a look at RedwoodJS - https://redwoodjs.com. It's near 1.0, has a solid core team (with a really sounding track record) and just works (really)!
You can't get anything near as sober, sane, predictable, and idiomatic as it IMHO. Just try it.
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