A new computer is great 💻🎉 – It’s a clean slate. It’s snappy. It’s great… but it is missing all the tools I rely on every day! My work requires me to jump around in a variety of tools and technology stacks, hence I need to install a lot of different tools and be able to support different development environments.
Existing package manager for CLI tools
Over time developers load command line tools like people are buying toilet paper these days. From maven, via tl;dr, stopping at kubectl to tmux. We use all of those little nifty tools. Hence setting up a new machine can seem scary task at times, but fear not! For CLI tools we solved that problem long long ago with Homebrew, or as you probably know it: brew
(The windows folks probably know Chocolatey)
You can install maven for example by running: brew install maven
Fear not! The same tool that installs CLI tools can install (almost) all our applications!
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