For Homebrew users
Zero-friction migration from Homebrew.
stout is not a new package ecosystem. It installs the exact same bottles from the exact same Homebrew infrastructure — just 10-100x faster. Your existing Cellar, taps, and symlinks work unchanged.
Switch in 60 seconds
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neul-labs/stout/main/install.sh | sh
stout install wget # uses same bottles, same tap, 10-100x fasterWhat stays the same
- Same formulae from homebrew-core and homebrew-cask
- Same Cellar directory structure (
/opt/homebrew/Cellar) - Same symlinks in
/opt/homebrew/bin - Compatible
INSTALL_RECEIPT.jsonfiles - Same taps, same bottles, same upstream infrastructure
What gets better
- 100x faster startup: 5ms vs 500ms Ruby interpreter overhead
- 40-100x faster search: SQLite FTS5 full-text search vs API calls
- 10-20x faster updates: 3MB compressed index vs 700MB git clone
- Parallel downloads: multiple bottles at once instead of sequential
- Vulnerability scanning:
stout auditchecks for CVEs - Lock files: reproducible builds for teams and CI/CD
Gradual adoption
You don't have to switch everything at once. stout and Homebrew can coexist — they read and write the same directory structure. Start using stout for new installs and fall back to brew for anything stout doesn't support yet.
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