It funny what &quot;merit&quot; consists of from different perspectives. For google, merit may be to invert a binary tree. But most of the products by those googlers ain&#x27;t that great.
As from my perspective, I think homebrew is something that deserves more credit(merit) than most of google&#x27;s products.<p>The guy identified a problem and architectured a good solution for that problem. That already shows he has solid software development foundations, doesn&#x27;t it? Even though he doesn&#x27;t have a fancy degree.