watt
Runtime for executing procedural macros as WebAssembly (by dtolnay)
sccache
Sccache is a ccache-like tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible. Sccache has the capability to utilize caching in remote storage environments, including various cloud storage options, or alternatively, in local storage. (by mozilla)
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21 | 70 | |
1,219 | 5,347 | |
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7.3 | 9.4 | |
11 days ago | about 22 hours ago | |
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Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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watt
Posts with mentions or reviews of watt.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-19.
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Rust devs push back as Serde project ships precompiled binaries
The precompiled binary is not a sandboxed WASM binary. Despite the name "watt" it has nothing to do with https://github.com/dtolnay/watt . You can look at the actual code to see for yourself.
- Arbitrary code execution during compilation – rust
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syn v2.0.0 released
* Related: watt is one approach to pre-compile proc-macro crates using WASM.
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My first year with Rust: The good, the bad, the ugly
In addition to thiserror and anyhow, our resident superhuman Rust-improving Robot, dtolnay, also developed an experiment in distributing precompiled proc macros as WebAssembly named Watt and, though I never bothered to create a Zulip account so I don't know what was said, I'm told there has been discussion around the idea of implementing something in that vein.
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Rust is coming to the Linux kernel
I think when we have Cranelift, Mold, and maybe Watt all working together then compile times will basically be a non-issue. It'll be a few years though.
- watt: Runtime for executing (Rust) procedural macros as WebAssembly
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Security advisory: malicious crate rustdecimal | Rust Blog
Check out https://github.com/dtolnay/watt - it's a really interesting solution to the problem!
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Backdooring Rust crates for fun and profit
I really like the idea of Watt: https://github.com/dtolnay/watt Run macros in a wasm sandbox so they can't touch anything you don't explicitly allow.
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NPM malware and what it could imply for Cargo
I really wish there was more interest in getting something like Watt upstreamed.
- Things I hate about Rust, redux
sccache
Posts with mentions or reviews of sccache.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-22.
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Mozilla sccache: cache with cloud storage
Worth noting that the first commit in sccache git repository was in 2014 (https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/commit/115016e0a83b290dc2...). So I suppose that what "happened" happened waay back.
- Welcome to Apache OpenDAL
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Target file are very huge and running out of storage on mac.
If you have lots of shared dependencies, maybe try sccache?
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S3 Express Is All You Need
I'm going to set up sccache [0] to use it tomorrow. We use MSVC, so EFS is off the cards.
[0] https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/blob/main/docs/S3.md
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Serde has started shipping precompiled binaries with no way to opt out
I think the primary benefit of pre-built procmacros will be for build servers which don't use a persistent cache (like sccache), since they have to compile all dependencies every time. But IMO improved support for persistent caches would be a better investment compared to adding support for pre-built procmacros.
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Cache dependencies across crates
Checkout https://github.com/mozilla/sccache
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Distcc: A fast, free distributed C/C++ compiler
https://github.com/mozilla/sccache is another option which addresses the use cases of both icecream and ccache (and also supports Rust, and cloud storage of artifacts, if those are useful for you)
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How to fix Rust Coding LARGE files????
That being said a compilation cache, eg the de-facto standard for Rust: sccache (https://github.com/mozilla/sccache) will help to compile and store some of the build artifacts centralized - still for each crate version + build profile (RUSTFLAGS) combination.
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On the verge of giving up learning Haskell because of the terrible tooling.
That's definitely not my experience. Never had any issue running Rust on Windows. You just download and run rustup-init.exe, then updating is simply a matter of rustup update. Documentation generation is built in (cargo doc) and just a case of annotating code with triple-/ markdown comments and then running that command. sccache works fine for me (just need to set RUSTC_WRAPPER=/path/to/sccache). And the error messages from rustc are by far the best of any compiler I've used. Not sure how they're unhelpful, they tend to explain step-by-step what the problem is and how to fix it.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing watt and sccache you can also consider the following projects:
godot-wasm-engine
ccache - ccache – a fast compiler cache
cargo2nix - Granular builds of Rust projects for Nix
cargo-chef - A cargo-subcommand to speed up Rust Docker builds using Docker layer caching.
kani - Kani Rust Verifier
rust-cache - A GitHub Action that implements smart caching for rust/cargo projects
cargo-deny - ❌ Cargo plugin for linting your dependencies 🦀
cache - Cache dependencies and build outputs in GitHub Actions
cap-std - Capability-oriented version of the Rust standard library
icecream - Distributed compiler with a central scheduler to share build load
awesome-wasm-runtimes - A list of webassemby runtimes
mold - Mold: A Modern Linker 🦠