Homebrew

Today on GitHub Trending: PowerToys (v0.100, new Command Palette Extension Gallery), Astro (the content-site framework on a slow burn to 60k stars), Coder (remote dev environments now pitching AI agent workspaces), Homebrew (just ended --no-quarantine support), and Ghostfolio (self-hosted wealth tracker).

Not one of the five is a GPT wrapper, a prompt collection, or a two-week-old repo with suspicious stars. On a platform overrun by AI side projects, that absence tells its own story.

Mike McQuaid's 6.0 also makes the faster internal JSON API the default, sandboxes builds on Linux, and turns on confirm-before-install. Intel Macs drop to Tier 3 in September, a year before Apple cuts them.

Two users with maxed-out credibility told opposite stories: one fled to Mise and MacPorts over forced upgrades; the other just came back from Nix because Homebrew's Mac support and UX won.