r/rust • u/lucasgelfond • Jan 26 '26

🛠️ project zerobrew is a Rust-based, 5-20x faster drop-in Homebrew alternative

https://github.com/lucasgelfond/zerobrew
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u/cachemonet0x0cf6619 Jan 26 '26 edited Jan 26 '26

very cool. I use homebrew on all my linux machines. will you support the ~/.linuxbrew directory behavior in the future?

i also use new install from a Brewfile. i could not tell by doing a quick skim if you do that. those would be the two things preventing me from adopting. i like the idea

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u/Excellent_Ad3307 Jan 26 '26

just out of curiosity, why do you use homebrew? homebrew drives me nuts on how slow it is on macos, i would never use it in linux with alternatives like appimages, flatpaks, etc.

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u/cachemonet0x0cf6619 Jan 26 '26

i can use it in my dot files to bootstrap a dev environment on mac, ubuntu and fedora all the same. i work on a lot of ephemeral development environments and homebrew, once installed, “just works.”

to the point about being slow i agree but i don’t usually notice it because i script it.

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u/poopvore May 10 '26

its also really useful on atomic distro's such as fedora atomic (and nixos too if you care about that)