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Description:
Nanomsg-next-generation -- light-weight brokerless messaging

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Networking

Tags: messaging networking pubsub distributed-systems ipc

Install: brew install nng

About:
Nng (nanomsg-next-generation) is a lightweight, high-performance messaging library designed for concurrent applications. It implements scalable, bus-like pub/sub and pipeline patterns without a central message broker, ensuring low latency and high throughput. The library provides a simple, modern API that supports multiple transport protocols and is suitable for distributed systems.

Key Features:

Brokerless messaging architecture
High performance and low latency
Cross-platform support (Linux, Windows, macOS)
Multiple transport protocols (TCP, IPC, WebSocket)
Modern, simple API with bindings for multiple languages

Use Cases:

High-frequency trading and financial data distribution
IoT device communication and telemetry aggregation
Microservices and distributed system interconnects
Real-time data streaming and processing pipelines

Alternatives:

ZeroMQ – Nng is a spiritual successor to ZeroMQ, offering a more modern API, improved concurrency, and built-in TLS support while maintaining similar brokerless patterns.
NATS – NATS typically requires a central server, whereas Nng is truly brokerless and embeddable, making it lighter for edge computing scenarios.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 16, 2025 5:26pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	a2c628e8
Jan 5, 2025 8:03am		0	VERSION_BUMP	be79994d