# kache

5 Hacker News commenters recommended kache and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Rust compiler cache that people recommend for being easy to use, efficient, and handling worktree edge cases well.

## Why people recommend it

- Easy to use and efficient (1 comments): "very easy to use! quite efficient!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49963700))
- Handles worktree edge cases (1 comments): "takes this even further and handles more edge cases with worktrees" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49924065))
- Less time moving artifacts in CI (1 comments): "our ci was spending more time moving cached artifacts around than actually building" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48501382))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [sccache](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sccache.md): 11 recommend
- [ccache](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ccache.md): 7 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "kache", https://hackerapproved.com/p/kache/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).