TIL the creator of brew is working on tea and it’s related to crypto? https://warpcast.com/eth-experience/0xb8a808
Getting devs paid is the one of the biggest unlocks we could do. With a model that pays for maintainership over time.
Yeah, I've been playing around with it a bit and tea is pretty interesting but feels like a lot of magic and not like a typical package manager. I don't know if this is a good thing or bad thing. Important context that biases me: I'm a nix user and have contributed to nixpkgs.
It would be fun to try to help him with the governance because last time they had a fuzzy approach
tea is much faster than brew and works quite well, if anyone is feeling adventurous :) It's not yet full brew replacement as it lacks coverage for more esoteric packages.
It’s worth listening to the interview @owocki did with him on his podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639?i=1000627066349