I'm surprised that ripgrep is so low, at #227.<p>I've been using it instead of grep the last few months and I could never go back. Check it out if you haven't! Here is the repo and a technical breakdown by the author:<p><a href="https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep</a><p><a href="http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/</a>
This information is similar to debian's popcon: <a href="http://popcon.debian.org/" rel="nofollow">http://popcon.debian.org/</a>, but one advantage popcon has is that it tries to measure actual <i>usage</i> of a tool even after it's installed. This avoids over-counting people who install something and then never or rarely use it. Of course, that's more of a problem with Linux distributions (which tend to install a kitchen sink worth of stuff) than with homebrew (where people probably install a much smaller subset). In any case, it would probably be quite easy for homebrew to collect the same statistic (basically just look at the atimes of installed binaries).<p>[Disclosure: I'm the original author of popcon so I'm biased :)]
Homebrew's use of analytics still bothers me; specifically, making data public like this. It was supposed to only be used for development efforts, not showing off top-1000 lists. Also, I guess this following statement is - taking the charitable option - out of date.<p>> Homebrew's analytics are accessible to Homebrew's current maintainers.<p><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics.md#who" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....</a><p>Yeah, I know, my tinfoil hat is quite elaborate.<p>EDIT: Like I said, my tinfoil hat is quite elaborate; I already have analytics and automated updating turned off. I like to retain some control over what information is reported back to Google or other projects.<p>That doesn't somehow boost my confidence in Google and volunteer-run open source projects to properly respect the privacy of their users.
It is weird how small our global tech tribe is.<p>I would estimate I download tmux via homebrew once a year on average. It is possible 112,000 represents a good estimate of all mac carrying tmux users in the world [*]. For comparison this is roughly the same number as employees at Apple.<p>Assuming these stats aren't opt in.
Don't know what half of these are? Here's some quick and dirty Javascript to make each formula clickable to a detail page:<p><pre><code> document.querySelectorAll("td > code").forEach(code => code.innerHTML = `<a target="_blank" href="http://brewformulas.org/${encodeURIComponent(code.innerText)}">${code.innerText}</a>`)
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Cut and paste that in your Javascript Console (`View/Developer/Javascript Console` on Chrome) when you're on <a href="https://brew.sh/analytics/install-on-request/" rel="nofollow">https://brew.sh/analytics/install-on-request/</a>.
Youtube-dl at #18 is hilariously telling, although to be fair it's great for archiving clips (from all sorts of sites, not just YouTube) that may get deleted due to all sorts of reasons.
I wish there was a decent package manager on windows too. Chocolates used to be OK but I often find outdated packages and they keep breaking the syntax of existing scripts regularly (like by making almost all packages now require the flag --allowemptychecksum). I don't know why it never really took off. This is such a practical way to setup a machine.
Someone super needs to turn that list into an expanded version with a 2 line summary of each line.<p>I found myself tabbing out to google constantly like 'fdk-aac, wow, that's a thing? cool~'
Who the hell uses homebrew to install Perl? OS X ships with it, and perlbrew is a much more natural way to install it if you care about not using the system Perl. Maybe it's a dep for another package?
I'm surprised (in I guess a good way =) that awscli is all the way up at #15. Definitely expected quite a few utilities and languages to rank higher.