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Introducing Casita: A content-addressed store for source code and build artifacts
Domen Kožar introduces Casita, a content-addressed object store for source code and build artifacts—an argument for rethinking Nix-style packaging from the package manager up.
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From Thin Air to Bootable Images: The tine Build System
Martin Pitt and Daan De Meyer introduce tine: reproducible builds of RPM, Go, and Rust components into bootable images from minimal host requirements.
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Farid Zakaria on dynamic derivations and nondeterministic build graphs ahead of NixCon 2026—when a build step can roll dice, and what that means for caching and reproducibility.
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Mold has recently updated their linker benchmarks and included Wild for the first time. These benchmarks show Wild being substantially slower than Mold in contrast to Wild’s most recently published benchmarks from our last release on August 4th. This post is an attempt to understand why there’s such a difference in the benchmark results. Mold’s benchmarks were run on two machines:
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