Nope, I just use the UNIX provided in the macOS box.

What do you think people use Homebrew for? brew list gives me mailhog, mysql, postgresql, newer python, newer ruby, macvim, node, redis, ... these aren't IN the "UNIX provided in the macOS box".

I think he means that he uses Mac for Mac-y stuff (XCode, Apple and proprietary apps, etc) and Linux for the rest that you've mentioned.

But, to paraphrase Big Lebowski, "that's like, his preference, man".

Yeah, I figured out he wasn't using Mac for general development ... too late.

Well, that means you just use basic userland tools. Nice if that's all you need, others need more.

Nope that means I care about Apple platforms and UNIX, not pretty replacements for GNU/Linux.

Not sure what you mean.

As if some self-imposed UNIX/POSIX austerity, making do with the basic (and old) UNIX userland that comes with macOS (or other platforms), is something to be lauded?

(As opposed to just an example of someone making do with the little they need, where others' mileage may vary?)

Or is needing some of the tons of programs that don't come with "Apple platforms and their UNIX" (e.g. some random stuff I use: gnuplot, ripgrep, redis, postgres, jq, graphviz, and tons of different things others might want) somehow problematic?

Not even sure where Apple platforms and UNIX come into play as something to be contrasted to "replacements for GNU/Linux".

One of the benefits of macOS is precisely that as a UNIX it can run all kinds of UNIX tools, not just the basic POSIX utils, but close to everything available in a Linux/FreeBSD/etc package manager...

On the contrary, I use macOS for what it is and the value of its development stack, not as a pretty replacement for GNU/Linux, for that I already have my Asus netbook.

>On the contrary, I use macOS for what it is and the value of its development stack

OK, I get what you mean.

But "what it is" includes being a very usable Unix core that can run all kinds of stuff one might want.

So, like you, I don't expect macOS to be a GNU/Linux, or cater to tinkering and Linux/FOSS preferences. And I do my Linux-based development in Docker, remote VPS and servers, and so on.

But, on the other hand, I wouldn't carry two laptops, a "Linux" one for running postgres and redis and gnuplot, and a Mac one for running XCode and Instruments and Photoshop, out of some principle that Mac is Mac and Linux is Linux and "never the twain (use cases) shall meet".

We got this far down before we find out you don't actually do anything on your Mac that would require Homebrew? Well played.