
Max Howell, creator of Homebrew and founder of tea
The Sourcegraph Podcast
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Using a Package Manager to Build a Mobile Client
i really enjoyed objective c. up until then, because we used this cross platform tonke. But mac was the only platform where we could have a v m for lennox and a vm for windows and easily. Noniously, the tools for making those virtual machines were great on ma light. Everything was always great test on mac, even if light it might be greater on windows. So at that point, we were trying to build for six different platforms. And the amount of crap we had to go through to make it work on the six platforms was prohibitive. It led me back to thinking about doing a package manager. i started what would later become home brute,. just thinking
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