Build Systems

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.

Blog post · Software Engineering · Build Systems · Open Source · Infrastructure

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.

Blog post · Build Systems · Open Source · Linux · Engineering

A build graph that rolls dice

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.

Blog post · Build Systems · Open Source · Programming · Infrastructure

Benchmarking Wild vs Mold

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:

Blog post · Performance · Programming · Rust · Open Source

Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers)Original article link with an AI-written directory summary

A practical introduction to compiling C programs for developers who rarely write C themselves. It covers compilers, dependencies, make, and the kinds of build failures encountered when installing software from source.

Tutorial · C · Build Systems

Conditionally Disabling Code with Comptime in ZigOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary

An introduction to conditionally excluding code with Zig's comptime features. Mitchell Hashimoto shows why compile-time selection is useful and how it can be expressed with ordinary language constructs.

Tutorial · Zig · Build Systems

Fast builds, secure builds. Choose twoOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary

Sushain Cherivirala explains how Stripe approaches fast, trustworthy continuous integration. The article examines build orchestration, Bazel, and the security requirements of producing artifacts used in payment infrastructure.

Case study · Build Systems · Software Security