What's it all about, Alfie?

I have been doing a bit of updating in the last 24 hours, which includes getting the latest Apple compilers and support tools - git 2.3.2, even (nice!)... but I've also been checking with Homebrew for the grc command, and updating it based on the new compilers, etc. from Apple. And it just hit me (again), that a tool like Homebrew makes installation of hundreds of Open Source tools so incredibly easy. It's just almost impossible to think that it's necessary to compile many programs from source on a Mac these days.

Lots of great software is in Homebrew - with sections for Science and all kinds of things. Just an amazing community resource. Amazingly all built on Ruby and git. What a way to build something great.

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