# 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
- **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>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- 3body (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.6.5
## 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


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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