Homebrew
Portfolio concentration
77%
Top three share
Shows whether the organization is driven by one breakout repo or several visible projects.
Breadth
25 repos
Visible snapshot
13 repositories updated in the last 90 days.
Leading language
Unknown
Portfolio mix
Unknown (11), Ruby (8), Shell (3)
Average size
5.1K
Stars per repository
Useful for distinguishing one flagship-heavy publisher from a repeatable portfolio.
77%
of the visible star count comes from this organization's top three repositories.
5.1K
stars per repository in this same snapshot.
Unknown
is the most common language here, with 13 repositories updated in the last 90 days.
Why this rank
This organization stands out because its public portfolio is relatively balanced across 25 repositories.
Organization pages work best when you separate portfolio breadth from flagship concentration. In Homebrew's case, the visible top three repositories account for about 77% of total stars in this snapshot, which helps explain whether the organization is known for one breakout project or for a broader repeatable portfolio.
The dominant language mix here is Unknown (11), Ruby (8), Shell (3). That makes this page useful not just for popularity checks, but also for seeing what technical shape an organization's public ecosystem actually has.
Top Repositories
| # | Repository | Language | ⭐ Stars | 🍴 Forks | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | homebrew/brew 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) | Ruby | 48.2K | 11.1K | Today |
| 2 | homebrew/legacy-homebrew 💀 The former home of Homebrew/homebrew (deprecated) | 26.9K | 11K | 3 years ago | |
| 3 | homebrew/homebrew-cask 🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries | Ruby | 22K | 11.5K | Today |
| 4 | homebrew/homebrew-core 🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) | Ruby | 15.3K | 13.6K | Today |
| 5 | homebrew/homebrew-bundle 💀 Homebrew/bundle (merged into Homebrew/brew) | 5.5K | 286 | 1 years ago | |
| 6 | homebrew/install 📥 Homebrew (un)installer | Shell | 2.6K | 1.1K | 3 days ago |
| 7 | homebrew/homebrew-services 💀 Homebrew Services (deprecated) | 2K | 206 | 1 years ago | |
| 8 | homebrew/formulae.brew.sh 🏎 An online formulae browser for Homebrew | HTML | 2K | 636 | 3 days ago |
| 9 | homebrew/homebrew-command-not-found 💀 Ubuntu’s command-not-found equivalent for Homebrew on macOS (deprecated) | Shell | 426 | 46 | 8 months ago |
| 10 | homebrew/discussions 🗣 Public open-ended discussions. Replacement for our Discourse. | 425 | 51 | 3 days ago | |
| 11 | homebrew/ruby-macho 🔩 A pure-Ruby library for parsing Mach-O files. | Ruby | 257 | 35 | 3 days ago |
| 12 | homebrew/actions 🚀 Homebrew's GitHub Actions | TypeScript | 176 | 45 | 3 days ago |
| 13 | homebrew/homebrew-aliases 💀 Aliases for Homebrew (deprecated) | 154 | 29 | 1 years ago | |
| 14 | homebrew/homebrew-portable-ruby 💀 Versions of Ruby that can be installed and run from anywhere on the filesystem. | 151 | 48 | 7 months ago | |
| 15 | homebrew/brew.sh 🔖 The Homebrew homepage | HTML | 144 | 145 | 3 days ago |
| 16 | homebrew/homebrew-test-bot 💀 Tests the full lifecycle of a Homebrew change (deprecated) | 83 | 69 | 8 months ago | |
| 17 | homebrew/formula-patches 💀 Patches for Homebrew formulae | 70 | 149 | 7 months ago | |
| 18 | homebrew/homebrew-linux-fonts 💀 Homebrew Linux Fonts (deprecated) | 56 | 9 | 1 years ago | |
| 19 | homebrew/rubydoc.brew.sh 💀 An online Ruby documentation browser for Homebrew/brew | 40 | 24 | 7 months ago | |
| 20 | homebrew/patchelf.rb ELF patcher implemented in pure Ruby! | Ruby | 29 | 8 | 3 days ago |
| 21 | homebrew/homebrew-brew-vulns 🔓 A Homebrew subcommand that checks installed packages for vulnerabilities | Ruby | 24 | 6 | Today |
| 22 | homebrew/brew-pip-audit 📋 Bulk auditing Python dependencies in Homebrew with pip-audit | Ruby | 23 | 7 | 3 days ago |
| 23 | homebrew/glibc-bootstrap 🥾 Bootstrap binaries for compiling glibc from source | Shell | 17 | 8 | 3 days ago |
| 24 | homebrew/homebrew-formula-analytics 💀 Query Homebrew's analytics from the command-line (deprecated) | 17 | 20 | 1 years ago | |
| 25 | homebrew/orka_api_client 💀 A Ruby gem for interfacing with MacStadium's Orka API 2.x (deprecated) | Ruby | 9 | 5 | 1 years ago |
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