# zerobrewhq/zerobrew

> zerobrew is a Rust-based Homebrew alternative for macOS and Linux with a uv-style architecture that installs Homebrew packages much faster via caching and a shared store.

- Magnitude: 6.6 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 7,713 total · +125 stars measured 2026-10-08, 05:39–08:34 UTC, ≈ 249 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-01-19 · Last push: 2026-10-08
- GitHub: https://github.com/zerobrewhq/zerobrew · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/zerobrewhq/zerobrew

## Useful for

- Install packages from a Brewfile with zb bundle
- Speed up repeated package installs using the cache (zb install)
- Run a package without linking it via zbx

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-08 (UTC), 05:39–08:34: 7588 → 7713 stars (+125). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +249 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 2 per day.
- Hacker News: “A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew” — 78 points, 5 h ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 181
- Issues and pull requests: 435
- Watchers: 16
- Average over the last week: 54 per day
- Usual pace: 2 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 31
- Latest release: v0.4.0 (2026-10-08)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-09 … 2026-10-08: 0, 0, 0, 2, 3, 6, 0, 3, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 0, 2, 5, 0, 0, 5, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 5, 114, 125

## Hacker News

- A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew — 78 points, 61 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001580

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

## Similar by description

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   A high-performance drop-in replacement for Unix linkers that speeds up C/C++/Rust builds by linking object files faster.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/rui314/mold.md

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-08 08:52 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.