#description #formulae #outdated #multi-threading #brew-update #casks

bin+lib brewr

Better brew update with desc of new formulae/casks

14 releases

Uses new Rust 2024

new 0.3.1 Jul 8, 2025
0.3.0 Jul 2, 2025
0.2.2 Mar 17, 2025
0.2.1 Oct 10, 2024
0.1.2 Jan 13, 2024

#4 in #outdated

Download history 22/week @ 2025-03-21 1/week @ 2025-03-28 1/week @ 2025-05-02 7/week @ 2025-05-09 2/week @ 2025-05-16 113/week @ 2025-06-27 158/week @ 2025-07-04

271 downloads per month

MIT license

200KB
395 lines

brewr

brewr updates brew and adds descriptions for new and outdated formulae

Built with Rust as a first project while I was learning it. With multi-threaded lookups.

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Screenshot of brewr

Usage: brewr [OPTIONS] (no options defaults to update brew)

Options:
  -a, --all      List all installed formulae with descriptions
  -l, --leaves   List all manually installed formulae with descriptions
  -g, --grid     Display results with grid lines

Dependencies

~5MB
~96K SLoC