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Homebrew vs pkgx
The same facts for both, read from GitHub every night, and the relation a person reviewed.
| Fact | Homebrew | pkgx |
|---|---|---|
| Language | Ruby | Rust |
| Licence | BSD-2-Clause | Apache-2.0 |
| Stars | 50k | 9.9k |
| Latest | 7.0.9 | v2.11.0 |
| Last push | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-12 |
| Release cadence | about 5 days between releases | about 7 days between releases |
| Active contributors | 44+ commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days | 1 commit author on the default branch in the last 90 days |
| Flags | none | none |
How they relate
pkgx replaces Homebrew. Alternatives to Homebrew →
PartialRuns a tool on demand without installing it, from the same author as Homebrew.
Homebrew
- 7.0.92026-10-08formula: extract commit for goreleaser flags
- 7.0.82026-10-05test-bot: skip bottles for unsatisfiable formulae
- 7.0.72026-09-28Reconcile records for removed resources
- 7.0.62026-09-21Revert "Use InfluxDB v3 API for analytics reporting"
- 7.0.52026-09-21Reject redundant minimum macOS dependencies
pkgx
- v2.11.02026-07-22Bump rand from 0.9.2 to 0.9.4 by @dependabot[bot] in
- v1.6.02026-07-08Update linux to use xz compression on v1, including bootstrapping xz where needed.
- v2.10.32026-03-28Revert "change needed to preserve permissions in astral-tokio-tar"
- v2.10.22026-03-282.10.2/0.8.1 pin back astral-tokio-rs
- v2.10.12026-03-27bump-lib-version
Homebrew
✓ signed The latest release, 7.0.9, carries a signature GitHub verified.
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pkgx
✓ signed The latest release, v2.11.0, carries a signature GitHub verified.
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