[kowlo]

Perhaps they are talking about Homebrew the package manager [1].

[1] https://brew.sh

[hamandcheese]

I wonder what people mean when they say "Homebrew is pretty great", I do not wonder what they mean when they say "Homebrew".

[orf]

They mean that they have an overall positive opinion of Homebrew, more than “not bad” but less than “amazing”.

[anonymoushn]

For example people do not use homebrew to install python3 on a fresh install of mac os and get a python that spews a bunch of messages to stderr about the version of libc6.so and cannot speak TLS.

[hizanberg]

It does what it says on the tin and installs the plethora of software available on homebrew with a simple command, which is pretty great

[pdpi]

It's plenty solid, and there's a good library of packages on there. It's a package manager, doesn't take more than that.