Alacrity is one of my casks. I'm not tied to it. Alternatives? I guess I could just go back to terminal.

Here's my other casks:

    cask "aerospace"
    cask "alacritty"
    cask "betterdisplay"
    cask "emacs"
    cask "espanso"
    cask "hammerspoon"
    cask "jordanbaird-ice"  # ice
    cask "gimp"
    cask "inkscape"
    cask "maccy"
    cask "mactex"
    cask "macwhisper"
    cask "qmk-toolbox"
    cask "zoom"

You can either use the tap which is posted in another one of my replies, or install it from the releases and remove the quarantine flag yourself as describes in both the issue I linked and my blog post from 4 years ago. Or you can build it yourself with `make app`.

iterm2 or kitty are both pretty good

ghostty with tmux has served me well

See here for a workaround : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45913209

if it's an open source project, why is it using a cask anyway? it should be a formula that builds from source directly

I don't know much about macOS these days, but I was under the impression that Casks were for applications, and normal formula were for things installed in your PATH as standalone binaries. The .app needs a few extra things bundled up.

EDIT:

I looked it up, the issue is that homebrew explicitly doesn't want .app formulas: https://docs.brew.sh/Acceptable-Formulae#stuff-that-builds-a...

IDK what they expect. Every open source application developer needs to pay $99/yr now?

I mean you can always get the DMG from the releases on GitHub, so I guess we can just point people there and abandon homebrew. https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/releases

Mise can install things directly from GitHub

It seems like all they have to do is add a post install script that clears the quarantine attribute?

There's a third party tap now: https://github.com/m99coder/homebrew-tap

Time will tell if it's kept up to date.