Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew
5 hours ago
- #macOS
- #package-manager
- #Zig
- Fastest macOS package manager written in Zig.
- 7,000x faster than Homebrew.
- Optimized for Apple Silicon and macOS 15.
- Copy-on-write materialization via macOS syscall with zero disk overhead.
- Concurrent downloads, extraction, relocation, and dependency resolution.
- Uses Zig std.http.Client instead of curl subprocesses.
- Directly reads binary headers without otool; supports batched codesign.
- SHA256-keyed deduplication for skipping redundant downloads and extractions.
- No Ruby runtime, interpreter startup, or config sprawl; single ~2MB binary.