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suptejas/fleet
🚀 The blazing fast build tool for Rust.
Fleet is a Cargo wrapper that speeds up Rust compilation by wiring in sccache, lld/zld, and ramdisks automatically so you don't have to configure them yourself. It's aimed at developers who find Rust compile times painful and want a drop-in replacement for `cargo build`/`cargo run`. Still in beta.
The core idea is sound: the biggest Rust compile-time wins (faster linker, shared compilation cache) require annoying manual setup, and Fleet automates that. The 5x claim is plausible for cold builds on projects with many dependencies where sccache gets warm. Ships CI workflows for all three platforms, which is more than most tools this size bother with. Small, readable codebase — the command implementations under `src/core/commands/` are thin enough that you can understand what it's actually doing.
Last meaningful commit was April 2026 and the repo has been stuck at `1.0.0-beta` for years with 48 forks and zero indication of active maintenance — that's the biggest red flag for something you'd put in a team's workflow. The README is sparse to the point of being unhelpful: no explanation of what gets written to your system, no `fleet.toml` documentation, no list of supported platforms beyond install scripts. The install method is `curl | sh` with no checksum or verification step, which is a supply-chain risk you'd have to mitigate yourself. If your project already uses a `.cargo/config.toml` with custom linker settings, Fleet may silently conflict with them since it writes its own config.