Install macOS packages 7,000x faster than Homebrew. APFS clonefile, parallel deps, native Mach-O parsing. Written in Zig.

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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.