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jtilleon Sccache, Mozilla’s distributed compiler cache, now written in Rust

> ccache/distcc don't support MSVC

That's true. ccache/distcc only supports GCC. Well, LLVM probably works as well since its flags are GCC compatible.

jtilleon Sccache, Mozilla’s distributed compiler cache, now written in Rust

Their reddit comments are not consistent with my experience using distcc. I can attest it is indeed a distributed ccache and works quite well. For a while I was even using distcc with a GCC cross compiler on Windows nodes to speed up my Linux app builds.

If there's a sccache maintainer reading this thread please consider explaining the advantages of using sccache over distcc in the README.

jtilleon Sccache, Mozilla’s distributed compiler cache, now written in Rust

I've been using distcc for quicker distributed builds without issue for many years. What extra features does sccache bring to the table other than it being rewritten in Rust?