Package Mate
Master your macOS dev environment from the terminal
What it does
Package Mate is an open source, native Apple Silicon manager built in Go to fix the friction of macOS dev setup. This tool offers a seamless fire-and-forget workflow by allowing you to queue Homebrew installations in the background through automated daemonization while providing a high-performance, zero dependency interactive dashboard for managing your tool stack. It leverages deep version intelligence to resolve conflicts with unmanaged binaries and mirrors setups via base64 strings.
Does the same job
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Not sure if I would post this for the last day of #marchintosh OR wait for tomorrow the 1st of April. Both apply equally. Anyway, here's a pet project of mine, I made it as a glued on for another pet project of mine, but it developed a life of it's own now and can soar skyward toward success, fame, and glory.
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