burrito-elixir/burrito

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1423 stars · 68 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Burrito is a packaging tool that wraps Elixir Mix projects into self-extracting, cross-platform executables for Windows, macOS, and Linux, bundling the BEAM runtime (ERTS) and compiled NIFs. It is inspired by Bakeware and implemented with Zig, supporting plugin hooks for boot-sequence customization like auto-updates.

Use cases

• distribute an elixir cli app without requiring erlang installed
• package a mix project into a single executable for windows macos and linux
• cross-compile elixir nifs from one ci build server
• ship on-premise cli tooling to customer environments
• bundle erts with my elixir application
• auto-update a packaged elixir binary

When to choose

• you need to distribute Elixir CLI tools to machines without Erlang/Elixir installed
• you must support Windows, macOS, and Linux targets from a single build pipeline
• your project uses elixir_make NIFs that need cross-compilation
• you want self-extracting binaries with automatic old-version cleanup

When to avoid

• you are deploying Phoenix/web apps to servers where you control the runtime (use standard mix releases)
• you need a fully mature, battle-tested solution and cannot tolerate experimental edge cases
• you target platforms or OTP versions outside the supported pre-compiled range and cannot build custom ERTS
• you only deploy within environments that already have the BEAM installed

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

deployment build-tool cli developer-tools cross-platform windows elixir cli elixir mix-release self-extracting-archive zig erts-bundling cross-compilation nif beam command-line linux macos

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