Why hackers moved from mise to Homebrew
1 hacker described this switch in public comments. Their words, with links to the originals.
What hackers said about the move
“I personally switched from Mise back to Brew. I don't know if it was just my skill issue, but there were too many packages which found Mise to be problematic.”thatxliner, 2026-06-11original comment ↗
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mise vs Homebrew
| mise | Homebrew | |
|---|---|---|
| Hackers who recommend | 1 | 6 |
| Hackers who criticize | 1 | 3 |
| Moved away from it | 2 | 3 |
| Moved to it | 1 | 4 |
Counts are distinct hackers in the sampled comments, not market share.
Criticism of mise
No further criticism of mise captured yet.
Praise for Homebrew
“I reluctantly switched from MacPorts to Homebrew around 2014. At that time Homebrew had that yuck factor by recommending it be installed into /usr/local rather than /opt.”kccqzy, 2026-09-13original comment ↗
“I found homebrew updated formulas faster than macports did”ihuman, 2026-09-13original comment ↗
“At the time, Homebrew was less finicky and better at resolving dependency conflicts.”apothegm, 2026-09-13original comment ↗
“Homebrew (plus brew outdated) covered CLI tools and a subset of apps.”Simplita, 2026-01-03original comment ↗
“For everything else (zoom, slack, vscode, firefox, etc) I use homebrew packages.”perrygeo, 2026-01-02original comment ↗
Other moves from mise
- mise → fnox (1)