bold mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• bold

Projektgeschichte

The official README says bold used to be emerald, but the broader emerald driver effort was split off because of maintainer time constraints. The README positions bold as a direct competitor to LLVM lld and Apple's linker, with benchmark comparisons against Apple's rewritten linker, classic Apple ld, and lld.

Adoptionsgeschichte

bold is a young specialist developer tool. The input package facts show Homebrew and Nix packaging, which is the expected adoption path for an experimental linker aimed at macOS and Zig-adjacent systems developers.

Wie es verwendet wird

Typical usage is building with nightly Zig, then passing bold to C or C++ compilers with `-fuse-ld=bold` for clang or `-B/path/to/bold` for gcc-style toolchains.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

bold is interesting to package nerds because linkers are rarely casual dependencies; packaging it means exposing an alternate toolchain component that must match platform object formats, compiler driver behavior, and system linker expectations.

Zeitleiste

• 2026: The Codeberg repository metadata records the public bold repository creation.
• 2026: The README describes bold as the focused successor to the earlier emerald effort.

Related projects

• Related projects include Apple ld, Apple's classic ld mode, LLVM lld, Zig, and the earlier emerald project.

Quellen

• https://codeberg.org/api/v1/repos/kubkon/bold
• https://codeberg.org/kubkon/bold
• input.source_facts.package-manager