Homebrew: The Rust Revolution Accelerates
Nine pull requests merged today show Homebrew's transition to Rust picking up serious momentum. The biggest news is brew-rs now has full fetch support, plus new TTY utilities and better terminal formatting. Meanwhile, the bundle system expanded with npm support, and several important fixes landed for keg-only formulae linking.
Duration: PT3M54S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Homebrew.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Homebrew
- Published: 2026-03-25T10:22:28Z
- Audio duration: PT3M54S
Transcript excerpt
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Hey there, fellow developers! Welcome back to another episode of Homebrew, your daily dose of what's brewing in the codebase. I'm your host, and wow - what a day to be following this project! March 25th, 2026, and we've got nine merged pull requests that tell a really exciting story about where Homebrew is headed.
Let's dive right into the big news, because honestly, I'm pretty excited about what I'm seeing here. The Rust rewrite of Homebrew - this brew-rs project - just took a massive leap forward. MikeMcQuaid landed a hefty pull request adding full fetch support to the Rust implementation. We're talking over 3,000 lines of…
Now, here's what makes this really cool - they're not just porting functionality, they're being thoughtful about it. This new Rust fetch implementation focuses on bottle-only fetching for core formulae, which is smart. Start with the common case, get it rock solid, then expand. Plus, they've added helper…
But the Rust story doesn't stop there! botantony has been busy building out the developer experience with some really nice terminal utilities. They added an "ohai" function - you know, those friendly status messages Homebrew is famous for - along with proper…
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