Way to determine most popular Homebrew packages?
Homebrew has been collecting anonymized analytics data and is sharing it at https://brew.sh/analytics
Sample results:
#1 [email protected] 2,315,158 2.54%
#2 sqlite 2,159,426 2.37%
#3 [email protected] 1,933,232 2.12%
#4 gdbm 1,426,774 1.57%
#5 icu4c 1,332,610 1.46%
#6 readline 1,302,327 1.43%
#7 mpdecimal 1,291,791 1.42%
#8 glib 1,149,928 1.26%
#9 node 1,100,823 1.21%
#10 m4 1,078,010 1.1
Here is a list of the most popular packages that people explicitly install (not as a dependency of something else): https://brew.sh/analytics/install-on-request/
Here is a list of most frequently installed packages, which may include dependencies: https://brew.sh/analytics/install/