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24 alternatives to An incremental build cache for Rust on GHA

Hi HN, I'm Kyle, the creator of Clipper, a container registry with 7x faster builds via lazy pulls and cache mount exports. In the process of implementing cache mount exports I ended up with a FUSE mounted filesystem backed by a remote content defined store. I went looking for fun things to do with it and found that there's not really a good way to keep Rust incremental build state around on ephemeral runners, so here we are. Rust generally uses https://github.com/mozilla/sccache for caching, but sccache disables itself when incremental compilation is enabled…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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Cachekit – High performance caching policies library in Rust▲47
High-performance cache policies and supporting data structures for Rust systems, with optional metrics and benchmarks. - OxidizeLabs/cachekit
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Artifact Keeper – Open-Source Artifactory/Nexus Alternative in Rust▲166
I'm a software engineer who keeps getting pulled into DevOps no matter how hard I try to escape it. I recently moved into a Lead DevOps Engineer role writing tooling to automate a lot of the pain away. On my own time outside of work, I built Artifact Keeper — a self-hosted artifact registry that supports 45+ package formats. Security scanning, SSO, replication, WASM plugins — it's all in the MIT-licensed release. No enterprise tier. No feature gates. No surprise invoices. Your package managers — pip, npm, docker, cargo, helm, go, all of them — talk directly to it using their native…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hurry – Fast Rust build caching▲11
Hey HN, we’re Eliza and Xin. We’re working on Hurry, an open source drop-in tool that adds distributed build caching to Cargo with (almost) zero configuration. Wherever you run cargo build, you can run hurry cargo build instead, and expect around 2-5x (our best benchmark is 22x) faster builds. We built this because we were dissatisfied with the current build caching options available for Rust. Buck and Bazel require learning a new tool. GitHub Actions and swatinem are too coarse-grained (either the whole cache hits, or none of it does) and finicky to debug, and cargo-chef and Docker layer…
Dec 2025 · hurry.build · its alternatives →
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I missed the moving blocks, so I built a real Linux disk defragmenter▲97
Linux filesystem defragger written in Rust and Qt Quick/Kirigami - gbin/defragger
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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FlakeHub Cache: Fast, secure, configurable. A new take on Nix caching▲65
Fast, secure, configurable. A bold new take on Nix caching.
2024 · determinate.systems · its alternatives →
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I'm making a dynamic language in Rust▲184
An implementation of a dynamic programming language in Rust. Includes: Parser/Compiler, REPL, Virtual Machine, Bytecode Disassembler This started out as a learning project to teach myself Rust. It has grown into a decently substantial piece of software and I've learned quite a bit in the process! Some neat things: + A garbage collector that can store dynamically sized types without any double-indirection (i.e. I have my own Box implementation with manual alloc/dealloc) + The smart pointer used to reference GCed data is a thin pointer. The ptr metadata needed for DSTs is stored in…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Buildstash▲168
Hey HN! We just launched open sign up on Buildstash. It's a platform for managing and sharing software binaries. I'd worked across game dev, mobile apps, and agencies - and found every team had no real system for managing their built binaries. Often just dumped in a shared folder (if someone remembered!). No system for versioning, keeping track of who'd signed off what when, or what exact build had gone to a client, etc. Existing tools out there for managing build artifacts are really focused on package repository management. But miss all the other types of software not being deployed that…
2025 · buildstash.com · its alternatives →
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Pocache, preemptive optimistic caching for Go▲97
Hey all, I recently published this Go package, and would like to show off as well as get feedback!
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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a Rust ray tracer that runs on any GPU – even in the browser▲95
I’ve been experimenting with Rust lately and wanted a project that would help me explore some of its lower-level and performance-oriented features. Inspired by Sebastian Lague’s videos, I decided to implement my own ray tracer from scratch. The initial goal was just to render a simple 3D scene in the browser at a reasonable frame rate. It evolved into a small renderer that can: • Run locally or on the web using wgpu and WebAssembly • Perform mesh rendering with a Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) for acceleration • Simulate both direct and indirect illumination for photorealistic results • Be…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bake – A modular build system and package manager for C/C++▲132
Bake, A build system for building, testing and running C & C++ projects - SanderMertens/bake
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I wrote a tool in Rust for tracking all allocations in a Linux process▲113
allocscope - a memory tracking tool. Contribute to matt-kimball/allocscope development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Foyer, Hybrid in-memory and disk cache in Rust▲18
Hybrid in-memory and disk cache in Rust. Contribute to foyer-rs/foyer development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Unbug – Rust macros for programmatically invoking breakpoints▲96
This project is inspired by some of the asserts in Unreal engine. Due to reliance on core_intrinsics it is necessary to develop using nightly Rust, but there are stubs in place so a production build will not require nightly. I recently released version 0.2 which includes no_std support and adds optional log message arguments to the ensure macro.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Fast memcached clone in Go using Cuckoo hashing▲20
Fast PUT/GET/DELETE in-memory key-value store for lookaside caching - jonhoo/cucache
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A header only C++11 LRU Cache template class, with no dependencies▲29
A header only C++11 LRU Cache template class that allows you to define key, value and optionally the Map type. uses a double linked list and a std::unordered_map style container to provide fast insert, delete and update No dependencies other than the C++ standard library. This is a C++11 remake of m
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Turbocache▲84
Speed up and monitor CI pipelines when using Turborepo
2023 · its alternatives →
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Semcache – I built a semantic cache in Rust▲5
Have a look at my semantic caching project! It's built to easily integrate in existing LLM workflows, you can use it as a proxy where the cache forwards missed requests without modification to a specified upstream, automatically updating it's cache with the response. You can also use it as a cache-aside cache with a provided python library. It works by computing embedding vectors of input queries, and matches them to seen query + response pairs using a vector store. Everything is in-memory, so it should be blazing fast :)
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built a Ruby gem that handles memoization with a ttl▲48
I built a Ruby gem for memoization with TTL + LRU cache. It’s thread-safe, and has been helpful in my own apps. Would love to get some feedback: https://github.com/mishalzaman/memo_ttl
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Buildalon▲20
Speed up your builds with fully cached GitHub Action Runners
2025 · its alternatives →
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Quite Fast, sharded cache for Go with LRU/LFU, TTL and object pooling▲12
Fast(est), sharded Go cache with lock-free reads, self-adaptive SieveTinyLFU, batched async writes and HTTP middleware. - unkn0wn-root/kioshun
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
21TM
The most simple web framework for Rust v0.5free▲7
New Graphul version v0.5.0 Enjoy building webservices with Rust :)
2023 · graphul-rs.github.io · its alternatives →
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Orch8 – Durable workflow engine in Rust, one binary, Postgres or SQLite▲26
Contribute to orch8-io/engine development by creating an account on GitHub.
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tinykv – Minimal file-backed key-value store for Rust▲24
I built tinykv because I kept reaching for simple persistent storage in Rust projects but found existing solutions either too complex (sled) or unmaintained (pickledb). tinykv focuses on simplicity: JSON-based, serde-powered, with optional TTL. Perfect for CLI tools, game saves, config storage. Would appreciate any feedback from the HN community!
2025 · crates.io · its alternatives →
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Golang – Level 7 Load Balancer and Cache▲18
HTTP load balancer and cache. Contribute to CoderCookE/goaround development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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