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zig
General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
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tokio
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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.
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better mold alternative or higher similarity.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-02-10.
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How I solved the "error: linking with cc failed" in Large Rust Projects with Mold.
What I am going to explain is based on my experience dealing with that error. When we are installing and building a project, this compilation process is being done with a default compiler configuration. And this default configuration does not mean that it is the most efficient. Causing this process to fail in projects with huge codebases. It turns out that there is a tool called mold. Mold is a modern linker that makes this linking process much more efficient than the default configuration that the compiler already has. Saving resources and allowing the project in question to be built. Setting it up is quite simple. It is configured as follows:
- I wrote a commercial game in C in 2025
- Mold 2.35.0 – a new release of the high-speed linker
- Mold: A Modern Linker
- Mold: A Modern Linker (superfast linker)
- A 20-part deep dive into how linkers work
- Mold 2.32 Released with powerful new features
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I reduced (incremental) Rust compile times by up to 40%
I think this is unlikely to gain traction. I say that no to discourage you, just to explain.
- The community has an instinctive distrust of closed source or a compiler from an untrusted source. If you’re familiar with the Trusting Trust attack you’ll understand why.
- Dev tools in every language ecosystem are almost always free, unless they involve some kind of hosting. People aren’t used to opening their wallets. Look the experience of the guy who built the mold linker(https://github.com/rui314/mold). Far superior to the state of art, improves incremental compiles a lot, widely applicable across ecosystems (C, C++, Rust), CPU architectures and Operating Systems. You don’t even have to modify your compiler, just need to point to his linker. He’s even giving it away for free for personal use. But still, almost no one uses it. The inertia of the established options is really high.
- It’s not complex enough. Think about the complexity involved in the cranelift backend. No one can seriously recreate the efforts of bjorn3. If we could have, we would have. But the idea idea here can be recreated, especially by the experts who already built incremental compilation into rustc.
- But if your solution is truly complex, like the parallel frontend, the burden of maintaining a fork would be too high. You’d have to spend all your time rebasing.
Again I’m not trying to discourage you, just stating the difficulties of making a business in the dev tools space. You would be better off contributing this excellent work to the community and trying a different tack.
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Mold Course
I initially thought this would be about the mold linker (https://github.com/rui314/mold)
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rui314/mold is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of mold is C++.
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