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Why there is no homebrew formula for hashcat? Developer claims OS X support.

Feels weird to download binaries and check sums manually.

This belongs to homebrew cask (https://caskroom.github.io/) and you can indeed install it using cask.

Isn't cask supposed to be for heavy apps with GUI?

I think you probably need some pretty big libraries installed to compile it yourself. Using cask you don't have to.

I know it wasn't what you were asking, but compiling on osx was fairly easy for me: