# Install three-body with Homebrew

三体编程语言 Three Body Language written in Rust. Version 0.6.5 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:three-body
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install three-body
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:three-body
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/three-body>
- **Version:** 0.6.5
- **Source summary:** 三体编程语言 Three Body Language written in Rust
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/rustq/3body-lang>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/rustq/3body-lang>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/rustq/3body-lang#readme>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/rustq/3body-lang/archive/refs/tags/0.6.5.tar.gz>
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- 3body (cli)
- 3body (alias)

## Build dependencies

- rust

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 0.6.5
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/rustq/3body-lang
- Upstream latest detected: 0.6.5 (current)
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
## Project history and usage

Three Body Language is a small Rust programming-language experiment whose public project description presents it as a Three-Body-themed language and interpreter.

### Project history

The official README describes the language as still concept-level, with themed syntax such as bindings and control concepts drawn from the Three-Body setting. It also states that the interpreter design comes from Thorsten Ball's interpreter book and credits other small Monkey-language-inspired repositories as influences.

### Adoption history

The project is distributed as a Homebrew formula, but its official materials do not document broad adoption beyond the repository, releases, and package-manager availability.

### How it is used

Users install it as a CLI and run the `3body` executable; the README shows Homebrew installation plus `3body -h` and `3body` as the quick-start entry points.

### Why package nerds care

For package collectors, three-body is notable less as infrastructure and more as a packaged novelty language: a Rust interpreter with Chinese, science-fiction-themed syntax that is installable through Homebrew.

### Timeline

- 2023: GitHub repository created.
- 2023: Release 0.2.0 published on GitHub.
- 2024: Release 0.6.5 published on GitHub.

### Related projects

- The README links its interpreter lineage to Thorsten Ball's interpreter book and to Monkey-language-inspired Rust projects.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/rustq/3body-lang>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/rustq/3body-lang/releases>
- <https://github.com/rustq/3body-lang>
- input source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** three-body
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable


## Related links

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- [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata.
- [Language runtime packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/language-runtime-packages/) - Matched language runtime, compiler, or interpreter metadata.
- [rust](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/rust/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [algol68g](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/algol68g/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, compiler, interpreter, language-runtime, programming-language.
- [lua](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/lua/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, compiler, interpreter, language-runtime, programming-language.
- [mosml](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mosml/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, compiler, interpreter, language-runtime, programming-language.
- [vedic](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/vedic/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, interpreter, language-runtime, programming-language, rust.
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- [erg](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/erg/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: cli, compiler, language, language-runtime, programming.
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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/three-body.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/three-body.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
