gobrew | how many apps written in a specific programming language ?
Gobrew is a little software tool built to count the packages, programs, or apps which are written in a specific programming language.
Gobrew is an open source software, and available on GitHub . It is written in Go programming language.
The programmer 🔗
Abanoub Hanna wrote gobrew to know if Rust used more than Go in production or otherwise .
How to install gobrew ? 🔗
You can install gobrew tool using Go toolchain by this command.
go install github.com/abanoubha/gobrew
Or install gobrew via snap package manager on Linux distributions.
snap install gobrew
Use cases 🔗
You can use gobrew to get the count of packages written in Go and distributed via homebrew package manager by this command.
$ gobrew -l go
1116
List all languages and libraries and the count of the packages written in them.
$ gobrew -s
# of all languages/libraries/frameworks: 1545
pkgconf : 1747
cmake : 1184
go : 1132
[email protected] : 777
rust : 726
openssl@3 : 559
gettext : 496
autoconf : 458
automake : 437
libtool : 361
glib : 309
ninja : 296
meson : 251
openjdk : 233
node : 231
libpng : 193
certifi : 186
libyaml : 177
zstd : 157
boost : 156
freetype : 144
cairo : 143
jpeg-turbo : 140
readline : 128
# truncated for brevity
You can scroll through all the languages and libraries by piping the result into less like this.
gobrew -s | less
List all packages and apps which depend on a certain programming language or library.
$ gobrew -d zig
superhtml :
HTML Language Server & Templating Language Library
zf :
Command-line fuzzy finder that prioritizes matches on filenames
zigmod :
Package manager for the Zig programming language
bold :
Drop-in replacement for Apple system linker ld
fancy-cat :
PDF reader for terminal emulators using the Kitty image protocol
zigup :
Download and manage zig compilers
zls :
Language Server for Zig
asciigen :
Converts images/video to ASCII art
cargo-zigbuild :
Compile Cargo project with zig as linker
flow-control :
Programmer's text editor
hevi :
Hex viewer
ncdu :
NCurses Disk Usage
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