topiary mit Homebrew, Nix, winget installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• topiary

Projektgeschichte

Topiary's changelog records an early prototype release in June 2022 and v0.1.0 in March 2023. Tweag announced the project publicly in March 2023 as a universal formatter engine aimed at both formatter authors and end users: authors write declarative formatting queries rather than a parser and engine, while users get consistent style from a single tool.

The Topiary Book explains the core architecture: Topiary relies on Tree-sitter parse trees and Tree-sitter query captures to decide where to add spacing, line breaks, and formatting actions. This makes the project part of the broader editor and parser ecosystem rather than a standalone formatter for only one language.

Through 2024 and 2025, releases added packaging, a CLI crate, dynamically fetched grammars, coverage and query tooling, OpenSCAD, WIT, SDML, Nickel and OCaml work, prefetching, man pages, and Tree-sitter upgrades. The changelog shows v0.7.3 at the end of 2025, while crates.io lists topiary-cli 0.7.3 as the current published CLI package in early 2026.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Topiary is still a specialist formatter rather than a universal default, but it has package-manager reach in the input metadata through Homebrew, Nix, and Winget. Its audience overlaps with Nix/Tweag/Tree-sitter users, formatter authors, language-tooling maintainers, and developers working on languages that lack a mature dedicated formatter.

Wie es verwendet wird

Topiary is used either as a CLI formatter or as a framework for defining formatting behavior. Formatter authors provide Tree-sitter grammars and query files; users can run the CLI to format supported languages, prefetch grammars, check formatting in CI, and inspect coverage of formatting queries.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Topiary matters to package nerds because it turns formatting support into packageable language data: grammars, query files, and CLI releases can be distributed separately from language compilers. That fits ecosystems such as Nix, Homebrew, Winget, Tree-sitter, and editor tooling, where small language tools are composed from reusable packages.

Zeitleiste

• 2022: v0.0.1 prototype recorded in the changelog.
• 2023: v0.1.0 released and Tweag announced Topiary.
• 2024: v0.5.1 era adds dynamic grammar handling and topiary-cli packaging appears on crates.io.
• 2025: v0.6.x and v0.7.x add language support, Topiary Book documentation, man pages, and Tree-sitter upgrades.
• 2026: crates.io lists topiary-cli 0.7.3 as the current published CLI release.

Related projects

• Tree-sitter, Nickel, OCaml, OpenSCAD, WIT, SDML, Nix, Homebrew, Winget, formatter tooling.

Quellen

• https://crates.io/crates/topiary-cli
• https://github.com/tweag/topiary#readme
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tweag/topiary/main/CHANGELOG.md
• https://topiary.tweag.io/
• https://topiary.tweag.io/book/
• https://topiary.tweag.io/book/getting-started/on-tree-sitter.html
• https://tweag.io/blog/2023-03-09-announcing-topiary/
• source_facts.package-manager