A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew
cachebag
30 points
18 comments
October 08, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (8 comments)
MiroslavPokorny
I would mention in the title here thaat zerobrew uses the same install files as homebrew.
jackwsmth
This is pretty cool - but Homebrew is also being in Rust right now, right?
wg0
Homebrew fails to install on Intel Macs. Says unsupported.
sevg
Warning for those that care: LLM readme.
BugsJustFindMe
> "zerobrew does the relocation in-process and links from a content-addressed store" Ok, but why a new app for that instead of a PR for brew?
potamic
What's the significance of warm speedup in the benchmarks? For most new installs, cache would mostly be empty, shouldn't the cold numbers be more significant for day to day use?
AbuAssar
> brew install zerobrewhq/zerobrew/zerobrew Bruh…
karel-3d
Most of the slowness in brew comes from download times, so I don't really need this I think? I never thought "brew is too slow" except when it's downloading. But I always thought I don't need pnpm untill I started using it, so. I don't know. (I always knew I needed actually good python package manager before uv came, though.)