--- title: nanobrew | daily.dev description: nanobrew is a macOS package manager written in Zig, claiming to be 7,000x faster than Homebrew with 3.5ms warm installs. It achieves speed through... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/nanobrew-hgymlvjlz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: nanobrew | daily.dev og:description: nanobrew is a macOS package manager written in Zig, claiming to be 7,000x faster than Homebrew with 3.5ms warm installs. It achieves speed through... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/nanobrew-hgymlvjlz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/HgymlvJLZ.png og:image:alt: nanobrew og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # nanobrew **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 1 min read · 1 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary nanobrew is a macOS package manager written in Zig, claiming to be 7,000x faster than Homebrew with 3.5ms warm installs. It achieves speed through copy-on-write materialization via macOS syscalls, concurrent downloads and dependency resolution, direct binary header parsing (no otool), SHA256-keyed deduplication for reinstalls, and a single ~2MB binary with no Ruby runtime overhead. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@khauma** · 0 upvotes > interesting ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [lucasgelfond/zerobrew: A drop-in, 5-20x faster, Rust-based experimental Homebrew alternative](https://daily.dev/posts/lucasgelfond-zerobrew-a-drop-in-5-20x-faster-rust-based-experimental-homebrew-alternative-mu2gac20u) · Lobsters · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Standing on the shoulders of Homebrew](https://daily.dev/posts/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-homebrew-wbml2kshb) · Andrew Nesbitt · 19 upvotes · 5 comments - [Behind The Scenes of Bun Install](https://daily.dev/posts/behind-the-scenes-of-bun-install-escijcmub) · Bun · 6 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#mac](https://daily.dev/tags/mac), [#zig](https://daily.dev/tags/zig) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/nanobrew-hgymlvjlz) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"nanobrew","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/nanobrew-hgymlvjlz","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/nanobrew-hgymlvjlz"},"datePublished":"2026-03-24T17:03:43.760Z","dateModified":"2026-03-24T17:04:08.528Z","description":"nanobrew is a macOS package manager written in Zig, claiming to be 7,000x faster than Homebrew with 3.5ms warm installs. 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