sscache has pre-built binaries on their releases page. Or you can do:

    cargo install --no-default-features 

To avoid building support for all storage backends. You can then add back any backend you're actually using.

Thanks, I failed to find how to download them, besides the note that a login is expected, I could not find the artifacts among GitHub workflows.

However, the point is actually how it is a big hurdle to overcome having to compile crates with npm like dependency trees all from scratch, vs other compiled languages integrated into the distribution package repositories.