# surfer mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für surfer in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:surfer
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install surfer
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#surfer
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/su/surfer/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:surfer
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.7.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Waveform viewer, supporting VCD, FST, or GHW format
- **Homepage:** <https://surfer-project.org/>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-05-11T18:34:18-04:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- surfer (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.7.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Surfer is a Rust waveform viewer for hardware-development waveforms, supporting VCD, FST, GHW, and FTR-style inputs. Official documentation describes it as a configurable native and web-capable viewer with a separate server mode named surver.

### Projektgeschichte

Surfer's official changelog says the project is still in the 0.x phase and treats releases as mostly symbolic snapshots on a six-week release cycle. Official GitLab release metadata shows early public release tags in 2024, followed by rapid feature growth through 2025 and 2026.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The README says native builds are recommended for day-to-day use, while a browser-hosted version exists for trying the tool. The documentation also notes package-manager availability for some Linux distributions and Homebrew, matching the supplied Homebrew and Nix package facts.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Surfer is used to inspect HDL simulation waveforms locally, through a browser/WebAssembly build, or through surver client-server mode when waveform files live on another machine. Its feature list emphasizes snappy zooming, command-line interaction, configurable colors, waveform translations, VS Code integration, and remote/server support.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Package nerds care about Surfer because it is part of the modern Rust-and-open-EDA tooling wave: a native GUI/TUI-adjacent developer tool with cargo installation, Homebrew packaging, web artifacts, and platform-specific binary concerns. It packages the everyday debugging surface for HDL developers rather than the compiler itself.

### Zeitleiste

- 2024: GitLab releases show 0.1.0 and later 0.2.0/0.3.0 public tags
- 2025: Changelog records 0.4.0 and 0.5.0 feature releases
- 2026: GitLab releases show 0.6.0 and 0.7.0 releases

### Related projects

- Surfer is related to HDL waveform formats and tools such as VCD, FST, GHW, GTKWave/libfst, GHDL, Spade integrations, and VS Code waveform workflows.

### Quellen

- <https://docs.surfer-project.org/book/>
- <https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/surfer-project%2Fsurfer/releases>
- <https://gitlab.com/surfer-project/surfer/-/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md>
- <https://gitlab.com/surfer-project/surfer/-/blob/main/README.md>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - surfer: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/su/surfer/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/surfer.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/surfer.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph