gb has been in development for just over a year now. Since the announcement in May 2015 the project has received over 1,600 stars, produced 16 releases, and attracted 41 contributors. Thanks to a committed band of early adopters, gb has grown to be a usable day to day replacement for the go tool. But, there is […]
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26 Jun 2016
19 Aug 2015
For the longest time I had this alias in my .bashrc alias gb='go install -v' as an homage to John Asmuth’s gb tool which I was very fond of way back before we had the go tool. Once gb was written, I had to remove that alias and live in a world where I used […]
8 Jun 2015
A few months ago I introduced gb as a proof of concept to the audience at GDG Berlin. Since then, together with a small band of contributors and an enthusiastic cabal of early adopters, gb has moved from proof of concept, written mostly on trains during a trip through Europe, to something approaching a usable […]
11 May 2015
In April 2015 I gave a presentation to the GDG Berlin meetup group (slides, video) discussing my views on reproducible builds using the Go programming language. As part of that presentation I demonstrated a replacement build tool that I had been developing, gb. From the feedback I received after the meetup it was clear that […]