A drop-in replacement for brew on macOS.
This is a complete 1:1 feature-parity tool of brew, the popular package manager used on macOS devices. This project mostly exists for fun and shouldn't be used in any sort of official capacity. Personally, I use it over brew when running packaging commands on my system, but proceed with caution.
Install the latest version via nightly.link or from the Actions tab to view older nightlies if necessary.
bruh is written purely in TypeScript and compiled into a binary using Node.js Single Executable Applications. This was mostly because I enjoy writing TypeScript and I wanted to prove that application design is just as important as the platform an application is built on.
Using promises, bruh is very fast and outperforms brew by a massive margin and most likely can outperform APT because of how the event-loop in Node.js works and concurrent tasks that I've chosen to opt into as a reliability trade-off.
The project mostly serves for my own exploration of the limitations of Node.js, macOS, and how to solve some of the issues in unique ways (such as re-elevating a non-root process, or handling authentication via PAM). However, I also aimed to solve a few of the issues that come with brew:
- Significantly speed up commands by removing scripts
- Remove the dependency on a local git state to track updates
- Be significantly more self-contained than the current iteration of
brew
Coming soon-ish?
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