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Tangentially related to Homebrew/brew#16237
This is an exploration of statically parsing the cask/formula files using grep + regexes to see if it is fast enough to allow us to parse that information on the fly each time and see if it's accurate enough to make the old command obsolete. The old technique required caching descriptions which is extra complexity and can be a security risk since it means that all package files are evaluated.
As is this is super hacky but it does show that this is a viable solution to the problem.
This is slower than the current
brew desc
command but not by much and this new command doesn't used cached data at all. The main worry here would be performance though.