Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew
Nanobrew is a high-performance macOS package manager written in Zig, claiming to be 7,000x faster than Homebrew by leveraging modern system optimizations.
The fastest macOS package manager. Written in Zig.
Then restart your terminal or run the export command it prints.
7,000x faster than Homebrew · faster than echo
Apple Silicon, macOS 15, same network. Cold = fresh download. Warm = cached in store.
Copy-on-write materialization via macOS syscall. Zero disk overhead per install.
Downloads, extraction, relocation, and dependency resolution all run concurrently.
Zig std.http.Client replaces curl subprocess spawns. One fewer process per bottle.
Reads load commands from binary headers directly. No otool. Batched codesign.
SHA256-keyed dedup means reinstalls skip download and extraction entirely.
No Ruby runtime. No interpreter startup. No config sprawl. Just one ~2MB binary.
Source: Hacker News
