ZeroBrew is a drop-in alternative package manager for macOS and Linux that reimplements Homebrew-style package operations with a "uv-style" architecture aiming to dramatically reduce install and upgrade times. It provides a familiar CLI (zb install, zb upgrade, zb bundle, zb uninstall, zbx to run without linking), installer scripts and a Homebrew tap, and is published under open-source licenses with an active repository (7.6k stars, 181 forks). The project emphasizes fast local package delivery via a different store/linking model and includes convenience commands for dumping and restoring Brewfiles, garbage collection, and shell completion installation.
Benchmarks measured on a MacBook Pro (M3 Pro, macOS 26.6.2) with zerobrew 0.3.5 vs Homebrew 7.0.8 show large speedups: across 100 packages total install time fell from ~776s to ~117s cold (≈6.6×) and from ~637s to ~9s warm (≈68×). Medians reported were ~5.3× cold and ~56× warm; individual packages show wide variation - node warm 121×, [email protected] warm ~69×, ca-certificates warm ~252× - and 24/100 packages installed ≥100× faster warm. Results specify definitions for cold/warm runs, note that cold installs are limited by download/link times (big bottles like go and llvm show smaller cold gains), and demonstrate sensitivity to network bandwidth.
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