Mike McQuaid
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Yeah, exactly.
Well, so another fun thing relatively recently is not just it's on WSL, but we actually have...
one feature that is like Windows specific and not even WSL specific in that we, if you've ever used brew files, if not, we should talk more about them.
But if you've used brew files, they now support WinGet, which is one of those classic scratch rich things where I use brew files everywhere for everything.
And I was like, hey, I want to automatically install a bunch of stuff on my Windows machine using WSL.
Can I do this inside of WSL?
And then it was like, oh, I can.
And then if I can do it inside of WSL, I can do it inside of Homebrew.
So
You can now install your Windows software on your Windows machine using Homebrew, which is even more bizarre, perhaps.
Yeah, no, I think that's about right because it is actually like nowadays embedded into the OS and there's like an OS-wide kind of... I mean, even macOS, I guess not many people know this, but this is like if you install any .pkg files, like Apple keeps track of all those and there's like package util or whatever.
And it's sort of, you look at it funny, it's kind of a very basic package manager and WinGet's like a bit more advanced.
But yeah, it is nowadays the built-in package manager in Windows.
The big difference being that most people on Windows most of the time are still getting most of their software, not through WinGet, but instead through just downloading off websites.
Yeah, although I'm very ignorant, but I think WinGet might be the back of kind of some of the Microsoft Store stuff as well.
Yeah, so a brew file is basically like a declarative way of interacting with Homebrew, right?
So rather than doing...
brew install x brew install y brew upgrade whatever you can have a single file which has a bunch of definitions in it um so they were originally sort of created for well i mean they were originally originally created by a sort of just like a very limited kind of gem files but for for brew sort of idea and they've been i guess i i've extended them and worked very heavily on them over the years with the idea of
If you're a software developer and you're working on a software project, then you probably have a package.json for your MPM stuff or a Python requirements.txt or a gem file in your Ruby projects.
But most of those projects would always have somewhere in the readme, oh, and by the way, you should install MySQL or Redis or Postgres or whatever it is.
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