Show HN: Glu – installing Homebrew packages 2x faster on macOS

Category: devtools

Tags: package-manager, macos, rust, homebrew, cli

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Glu is a Rust-based package manager for macOS that installs Homebrew packages roughly twice as fast by overlapping downloads, extraction, and installation while using server-side dependency resolution. It offers declarative package state via glu.json, JSON schema output for agent integration, and built-in trace observability. The project is technically sophisticated with critical-path scheduling and coalesced postinstall work, though it currently targets only Apple Silicon macOS.

Target audience: macOS developers, DevOps engineers, and coding agents

Repository: https://glu.run/ · Rust · BSD-2-Clause

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