> …did they have to go with "curl | bash"?

That's one of many options, documented at the first text link of the home page. https://docs.brew.sh/Installation

Wow, they even have a .pkg installer. Had no idea. Is this new?

	▲	CharlesW 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Without going too far down the rabbit hole, it looks like the maintainers added it in 2023. In the process, I was reminded that the installer initially required Ruby! (/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl…) FYI, mas is the equivalent of a package manager for macOS apps (a.k.a. a CLI for App Store). https://github.com/mas-cli/mas Other than brew, I use mise for everything I can. https://mise.jdx.dev/