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.

Image credit, Nate Finch

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 many people understood and agreed with my reasoning why reproducible builds in Go are a problem today. However it was equally clear that I had not done a good enough job of explaining how gb works, and why I felt it was necessary to create an alternative build tool to solve the problem of reproducible builds.

With the help of the go-pm mailing list and the feedback from a group of early adopters of gb, I have put together a website for gb with expanded documentation and examples.

I invite you all to visit getgb.io to learn more about gb.