Mike McQuaidFeb 16, 2023

Today I'm proud to announce the release of Homebrew 4.0.0.

The most significant change since 3.6.0 enables significantly faster Homebrew-maintained tap updates by migrating from Git-cloned taps to JSON downloads. In short, this means `brew update` and auto-updates will be much faster.

Also, if you read to the end you get to see me in a stupid beer outfit the other maintainers made me wear.

Check it out:
https://brew.sh/2023/02/16/homebrew-4.0.0/

4.0.0

Today, I’d like to announce Homebrew 4.0.0. The most significant change since 3.6.0 enables significantly faster Homebrew-maintained tap updates by migrating from Git-cloned taps to JSON downloads.

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Show threadalexanderadam
@mike did you ever consider migrating to #CrystalLang so that you can avoid the whole dependency thing while still being able to be closer to Ruby?
Feb 17, 2023 at 7:27amWeb
Show threadMike McQuaidFeb 17, 2023
@alexanderadam Considered it, can't see it ever working given our formula/cask DSL is written in Ruby and relies heavily on Ruby's stdlib.
Show threadalexanderadamFeb 19, 2023

@mike thank you so much for your response!
Well, the formulas would probably need something like Anyolite.

https://github.com/Anyolite/anyolite

GitHub - Anyolite/anyolite: Embedded mruby/Ruby for Crystal

Embedded mruby/Ruby for Crystal. Contribute to Anyolite/anyolite development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Show threadMike McQuaidFeb 20, 2023
@alexanderadam We're not going to do that :)