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Groxx on Dec 17, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: On Why Open Source Developers run Mac OS X

I occasionally look, and see squat. I think everyone's gone to MacPorts, though Homebrew is gaining a bit of traction; enough to be useful, nowhere near enough to be reliable.

jamie_ca on Dec 20, 2010 [–]

I've been perfectly happy in my little corner of the developer landscape (mostly Rails, plus random experiments) with Homebrew.

I've had friends of mine complain loudly after ~5 minutes when they find missing "essential" packages, though.

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