# Install chuck with Homebrew

Concurrent, on-the-fly audio programming language. Version 1.5.5.8 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:chuck
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install chuck
```

  Evidence: provider-native install command

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:chuck
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.5.5.8
- **Source summary:** Concurrent, on-the-fly audio programming language
- **Homepage:** <https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ccrma/chuck>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T00:40:33+00:00

## Executables

- chuck (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.5.5.8
## Project history and usage

ChucK is a strongly timed programming language and runtime for real-time sound synthesis, live coding, teaching, and computer-music research.

### Project history

The ChucK README says Ge Wang and Perry R. Cook created ChucK at Princeton in the early 2000s, with the first GPL release in 2003. The language developed around precise time control, concurrency, on-the-fly code changes, and computer-music performance.

### Adoption history

The upstream history traces adoption through miniAudicle, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, computer-music curricula, Smule's early iPhone apps, a 2015 book, online coursework, and later browser and host integrations. The batch input records broad package-manager availability across Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, Scoop, and WinGet.

### How it is used

Users run the command-line chuck VM to execute ChucK programs, add or modify shreds on the fly, use MIDI, OpenSoundControl, HID, and audio drivers, or embed ChucK core in other C++ hosts. The official release page distributes source, installers, miniAudicle, and command-line builds.

### Why package nerds care

ChucK is significant because it is not just an audio tool but a language runtime with a long-lived package-manager presence. Installing it from Homebrew or distro repositories gives musicians and researchers a reproducible CLI runtime for live audio code, while companion projects such as chugins, miniAudicle, WebChucK, and chump show an ecosystem around the core VM.

### Timeline

- 2003: First ChucK release under the GPL.
- 2004: miniAudicle IDE created.
- 2005: Princeton Laptop Orchestra began using ChucK.
- 2008: Stanford Laptop Orchestra founded; ChucK also used in early Smule iPhone audio apps.
- 2015: Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists published.
- 2017: Chunity brought ChucK into Unity workflows.
- 2020s: WebChucK and the WebChucK IDE made ChucK runnable in browsers.

### Related projects

- Official related projects include miniAudicle, chugins, WebChucK, WebChucK IDE, chump, Chunity, Chunreal, ChucKDesigner, Fauck, and Pure Data or Max integrations.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/ccrma/chuck#readme>
- <https://chuck.stanford.edu/doc/>
- <https://chuck.stanford.edu/release/>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/ccrma/chuck>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/chuck.json>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. generalized runtime or code generation signal.

- **Geiger risk:** yellow / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
- generalized runtime or code generation signal


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation