The Nift experiment notebook
Real-world builds. Measured tradeoffs. Unexpected findings.
A collection of experiments exploring what Nift can do—and what we can learn along the way.
01 / Fields of inquiry
Public content corpora, rebuilt with Nift. Independent designs, real workloads, and evidence you can inspect.
On the horizon
Build-system benchmarks / Scaling investigations / Framework comparisons / Runtime & scripting / Languages & FFI / Packages & tooling
02 / First entries
A frozen documentation corpus, strict output audits, and a transparent comparison of Nift and Astro build workflows.
Read the experiment →An agentic reconstruction of a production-shaped website. Build speed, dependency footprint, and developer experience under the microscope.
Read the experiment →A note on method
We use real public content corpora to investigate build-system performance and implementation characteristics. Unless a report explicitly says otherwise, these are independent interpretations rather than pixel-perfect migrations.
Exact upstream commits are recorded where available so each result can be tied to a specific corpus. Each report describes its measurement boundaries, evidence, and limitations.