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Open Source Package Management Software Homebrew Gains Native Apple Silicon Support
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Glad to hear it's up and running; still wish the devs had made some comment on their web site about what to do between November and now (you could Google it, but things were changing so much with so little real knowledge that it was an utter minefield for a month or two). I suggested that was their responsibility as maintainers of a major project and they banned me from their github. 
I'm so happy to see people from Apple providing guidance.
Is it me or does Apple seem to have renewed interest in the Mac lately? New kickass platform, going out of their way to make sure we have control of our own hardware, working with third parties like this...
I think leadership at Apple realized how important the Mac is; even though iOS devices outnumber Macs and provide the most revenue, developers for iOS work on Macs, and keeping developers and nerds happy is important for the health of the platform.
I'm really looking forward to the possibility of upcoming Macbooks with SD readers and MagSafe again, and the eventual day when M1 (or maybe M2?) iMacs are released and I put in an order for one.
Is it me or does Apple seem to have renewed interest in the Mac lately? New kickass platform, going out of their way to make sure we have control of our own hardware, working with third parties like this...
I think leadership at Apple realized how important the Mac is; even though iOS devices outnumber Macs and provide the most revenue, developers for iOS work on Macs, and keeping developers and nerds happy is important for the health of the platform.
I'm really looking forward to the possibility of upcoming Macbooks with SD readers and MagSafe again, and the eventual day when M1 (or maybe M2?) iMacs are released and I put in an order for one.
I LOVE YOU HOMEBREW-GUYS.
Thank you! Still running Intel but good to know, that it is ready for the future platforms.
Thank you! Still running Intel but good to know, that it is ready for the future platforms.
Besides open-source software (like youtube-dl), you can also use homebrew to install proprietary, closed-source software like this:
brew install --cask microsoft-edge iina zoom spotify (you name it)
So instead of having to download and install the software manually (which can really be painful when for example setting up a new mac), you just type into terminal what should be installed and it get's installed.
Whenever I set up (or reinstall) a mac I just copy my command (brew install ...) and let it do its magic. Can't imagine having to download and manually install software anymore.
Besides this, homebrew can also update your installed software automatically, so it's really nice that this now runs natively on M1.
A useful comparison: I don't find a lot of the tools for sale at my local Home Depot to be particularly useful to me. However, I wouldn't say that those tools are "not useful in any way".
It's not so much for "experts" it's just for people who wish to run a wide variety of unix software on a Mac.
A lot of Mac users never touch the UNIX side of things, and that's fine. But for people like myself who use a lot of different UNIX tools on a daily basis as part of my work, Homebrew is great and has most of what I need.
This is fantastic for us engineers! This, IMO, clears a major obstacle for these new Macs getting widespread adoption in the development/engineering community.
It's probably because a ton of Apple engineers use Homebrew themselves for their day jobs. So, it's in their own best interest to help out a project like that.
It's probably because a ton of Apple engineers use Homebrew themselves for their day jobs. So, it's in their own best interest to help out a project like that.
this speaks to your naivety . The packages on home brew/Mac ports/ other installers are not geared towards your computer user who does mainly internet browsing
Then you likely don't do any scientific computing or machine learning development. A whole bunch of scientists with M1 Macs are waiting for gfortran (etc.) to compile a vast amount of Fortran scientific libraries necessary for their work.
Is the beta fork of gfortran for Apple Silicon ready for prime time yet?
Indeed. Could add mosh (ssh, but without interruptions if you're on cell phone or moving around), unbound (cached lookups), composer (package manager), libfann, libsvm (machine learning), libheif (HEIF library), stress, mkvtoolnix etc ad infinitum. There are thousands of packages, and there should be something for everyone, not the least programming languages.
One oddity I ran into - if you updated to 11.2, check and make sure your command-line tools are still in place *before* you update brew (i.e. xcode-select --install). Mine were previously installed but apparently no longer functional since the OS update. Updating brew partially worked, but git and pcre2 broke catastrophically; every time I tried to update or reinstall git afterwards failed due to the underlying pcre2 breakage. It wasn't until I reinstalled pcre2 and then git that I could successfully update.
I was using MacPorts but they seem to have stalled on updating things for ARM recently. They started out way ahead of Brew but it looks like Brew is now much more complete. Of course, I just installed a bunch of stuff but I haven't actually tested much. But it looks very promising. First up, Qemu.
Edit: Big disappointment. QEmu doesn't run. It apparently doesn't include the published patches to allow it to run on the M1. So they are compiling software and building formulas but not really testing?
Edit2: It looks like ffmpeg is working though.
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Now I can finally start thinking about trying out M1 Macs! However, according to what I'm reading lately, with all those unresolved bugs I might hold off a bit on that idea as well,...
95% of my Mac use is on a late-2015 iMac, so that's what I'm waiting for personally. I suspect that by then we will have the M2 and even greater performance, along with the initial platform bugs being worked out.
This year may prove to be awesome!
It’s a toolbox for developers; It’s the missing package management that’s popular in Linux systems such as yum or apt.
it’s a must have for web devs, middleware devs, etc.
Well since you yourself ( probably quoting the devs) called it a beta, it is probably not ready for “prime time” , whatever that is( did you mean production?) quite yet.
Sorry if this was overly snarky, but sometimes I can't stop myself, sorry they you got cot down in the ctossfire