I love the Mac, and I think Homebrew is a fantastic project, but over the years I've grown weary of cluttering my workstation with tools (and their corresponding dependency trees) that I brew install-ed for some one-off purpose. Most of the time these very same tools are easier to install in a Linux-based environment, which is my preferred development environment anyways.
Today I was trying to install tmux on the Mac for the Nth time and all of my Google searches resulted in the same instructions: brew install tmux. But I don't want to use brew!
Perhaps it's time to update my development environment. Docker to the rescue? Maybe instead of cluttering my workstation I can maintain a Dockerfile with all of my standard development tools, and maintain per-project Dockerfiles for the various tools that are needed for a given project but not as part of my standard toolchain?
I love the Mac, and I think Homebrew is a fantastic project, but over the years I've grown weary of cluttering my workstation with tools (and their corresponding dependency trees) that I
brew install-ed for some one-off purpose. Most of the time these very same tools are easier to install in a Linux-based environment, which is my preferred development environment anyways.Today I was trying to install
tmuxon the Mac for the Nth time and all of my Google searches resulted in the same instructions:brew install tmux. But I don't want to usebrew!Perhaps it's time to update my development environment. Docker to the rescue? Maybe instead of cluttering my workstation I can maintain a Dockerfile with all of my standard development tools, and maintain per-project Dockerfiles for the various tools that are needed for a given project but not as part of my standard toolchain?
Let's give it a shot!