The reason for this Ask HN is that I saw a comment from one of Homebrew maintainers in this comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33682031
Here's an excerpt: "because the majority of its [Homebrew] users (developers) want rolling updates for their tooling."
My biggest pain point with Homebrew are its constant trying to update packages to the latest versions. I know there are ways around this like some pointed in that thread. I'm just baffled that that's the default behavior.
I'm wondering how many people prefer this behavior and why?