Homebrew
@homebrew • The Package Manager for Everywhere. Use this route to separate flagship concentration from portfolio breadth before you treat a publisher as broadly strong.
Portfolio concentration
77%
Top three share
Shows whether the organization is driven by one breakout repo or several visible projects.
Breadth
28 repos
Visible snapshot
16 repositories updated in the last 90 days.
Leading language
Unknown
Portfolio mix
Unknown (12), Ruby (8), Shell (3)
Average size
4.6K
Stars per repository
Useful for distinguishing one flagship-heavy publisher from a repeatable portfolio.
Updated: 2026-08-26(1h ago)GitHub API fallback28 repositories
77%
of the visible star count comes from this organization's top three repositories.
4.6K
stars per repository in this same snapshot.
Unknown
is the most common language here, with 16 repositories updated in the last 90 days.
Why this rank
This organization stands out because its public portfolio is relatively balanced across 28 repositories.
Balanced portfolio across 28 reposTop 3 share 77%
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 (12), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | homebrew/brew 🍺 The Package Manager for Everywhere | Ruby | 49.3K |
| 2 | homebrew/legacy-homebrew 💀 The former home of Homebrew/homebrew (deprecated) | 26.8K | |
| 3 | homebrew/homebrew-cask 🍻 Default casks (upstream binary packages) for the package manager for everywhere | Ruby | 22.2K |
| 4 | homebrew/homebrew-core 🍻 Default and OSS formulae (built-from-source packages) for the package manager for everywhere | Ruby | 15.5K |
| 5 | homebrew/homebrew-bundle 💀 Homebrew/bundle (merged into Homebrew/brew) | 5.5K | |
| 6 | homebrew/install 📥 Homebrew (un)installer | Shell | 2.7K |
| 7 | homebrew/formulae.brew.sh 🏎 An online formulae browser for Homebrew | HTML | 2.1K |
| 8 | homebrew/homebrew-services 💀 Homebrew Services (deprecated) | 2K | |
| 9 | homebrew/discussions 🗣 Public open-ended discussions. Replacement for our Discourse. | 435 | |
| 10 | homebrew/homebrew-command-not-found 💀 Ubuntu’s command-not-found equivalent for Homebrew on macOS (deprecated) | Shell | 424 |
| 11 | homebrew/ruby-macho 🔩 A pure-Ruby library for parsing Mach-O files. | Ruby | 258 |
| 12 | homebrew/actions 🚀 Homebrew's GitHub Actions | TypeScript | 182 |
| 13 | homebrew/homebrew-aliases 💀 Aliases for Homebrew (deprecated) | 154 | |
| 14 | homebrew/homebrew-portable-ruby 💀 Versions of Ruby that can be installed and run from anywhere on the filesystem. | 151 | |
| 15 | homebrew/brew.sh 🔖 The Homebrew homepage | HTML | 145 |
| 16 | homebrew/BrewUI 📺 Homebrew's official macOS GUI | Swift | 106 |
| 17 | homebrew/homebrew-test-bot 💀 Tests the full lifecycle of a Homebrew change (deprecated) | 84 | |
| 18 | homebrew/formula-patches 💀 Patches for Homebrew formulae | 71 | |
| 19 | homebrew/homebrew-linux-fonts 💀 Homebrew Linux Fonts (deprecated) | 56 | |
| 20 | homebrew/rubydoc.brew.sh 💀 An online Ruby documentation browser for Homebrew/brew | 42 | |
| 21 | homebrew/homebrew-brew-vulns 💀 A Homebrew subcommand that checks installed packages for vulnerabilities (merged into Homebrew/brew) | 39 | |
| 22 | homebrew/patchelf.rb ELF patcher implemented in pure Ruby! | Ruby | 30 |
| 23 | homebrew/brew-pip-audit 📋 Bulk auditing Python dependencies in Homebrew with pip-audit | Ruby | 24 |
| 24 | homebrew/glibc-bootstrap 🥾 Bootstrap binaries for compiling glibc from source | Shell | 17 |
| 25 | homebrew/homebrew-formula-analytics 💀 Query Homebrew's analytics from the command-line (deprecated) | 17 | |
| 26 | homebrew/orka_api_client 💀 A Ruby gem for interfacing with MacStadium's Orka API 2.x (deprecated) | Ruby | 10 |
| 27 | homebrew/advisory-database 📢 OSV-format vulnerability records for Homebrew packages | Ruby | 5 |
| 28 | homebrew/brew-rs 💀 Experimental Rust frontend for Homebrew/brew (deprecated) | Rust | 5 |
Next step after the organization read
Open a flagship repository, compare a couple of portfolio leaders, or return to the organization map when you want a broader concentration read.
Learn and methodology
Keep trust-building context reachable, but behind the first data read instead of ahead of it.
How to read this organization snapshot
Total stars are useful as a discovery signal, but they do not tell you whether a team maintains every repository equally. Pair this page with release cadence, maintainer activity, and the flagship concentration shown above before making adoption decisions.
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