wild-linker/wild

Health v2 · maintenance only

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3884 stars · 136 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Wild is a very fast linker for Linux written in Rust, designed to speed up iterative development builds. It works as a drop-in replacement for GNU ld/gold/lld, invoked via GCC or Clang flags like --ld-path or -fuse-ld.

Use cases

• speed up linking during iterative development
• replace GNU ld or lld with a faster linker on Linux
• reduce Rust or C++ build times caused by slow linking
• integrate a fast linker into Cargo, CMake, or Meson builds

When to choose

• you develop on Linux and linking dominates your build times
• you want a drop-in linker replacement for GCC/Clang toolchains
• you build Rust, C, or C++ projects frequently and want faster iteration

When to avoid

• you need incremental linking, which is not yet implemented
• you target platforms other than Linux
• you require maximum battle-tested stability for production release toolchains

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

build-tool developer-tools developer-tools compilers performance rust cli linker drop-in-replacement build-performance incremental-linking command-line linux

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