Comment by thewhitetulip
3 days ago
At the off chance that you'll see and reply to my message, I have a question
I saw a tweet by someone many years ago before I knew Homebrew was a thing. The tweet basically said "Google rejected me for not being able to invert a binary tree when 80% of Google engg use Homebrew"
Was that true?
That would be Max Howell @mxcl who started Homebrew: https://x.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
So the incident really happened lol
Ostensibly it did. But worth noting that despite many people still thinking of Max Howell when they think of Homebrew, he hasn’t been there for a long long time. Pretty sure he wasn’t there at the time of that Google interview, even. Mike and all the other contributors deserve much more credit for Homebrew. There are even contributors who since left who were there for longer and had a bigger impact than Max. And he had nothing to do with the Cask part.
Unfortunately, Max still clings to having created Homebrew as his greatest achievement, despite being so uninvolved for so long that just about the only thing that remains of his is the name and the beer nomenclature often confusing for newcomers. Since then, he’s been aggressively chasing whatever is popular at the time. When blockchain was all the rage, the made a package manager that leveraged it. Now he’s into AI stuff. But always, still at the top of his website and plastered everywhere whenever he pursues a project, he mentions he created Homebrew.
https://mxcl.dev/
Seventeen mentions of Homebrew on the homepage alone.
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