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I don't think homebrew has more user than say apt or pacman. Maybe there are a bit more people running osx than linux, but much of them are not devs or "power users" and never run homebrew.


Apt I can agree, it's still the gold standard of package manager and powers the most popular distributions out there in bajillion cloud instances.

Pacman, erm what? Arc is a niche of a niche. I'd bet Alpine's package manager sees more action than that - let alone yum/rpm.


I have friends working on debian based distro, following their discussions on a lot of dpkg packaging intricacies is crazy. However that also means it's mature piece of software that handle many cases under the sky of software packaging and distribution.


Besides, we all know that pacman is nothing compared to the one true package manager, portage.


Does it make homebrew less valuable if there are other package managers for other OS’s that have more users?


The very premise of this (sub)thread is one of "more users == providing more value" so .. yes, for this conversation, it matters.




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