Re:Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler
by eyelidlessness on Thursday October 14, 2021 @08:06PM
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> I think by the time we even care about the performance of a plugin being "golang" fast
I certainly care about it being faster than estree-*/babel. There are a lot of static analysis and optimization things I’d like to do that are slow enough in JS to negate a lot of ESBuild’s advantage.
> we will have rome built in rust.
> Rome will be the full kit and caboodle at native speeds (bundler, tree shaking compiler, linter, type checker, etc...), whereas esbuild will be the rome-lite for when you just want to bundle some code and have it done.
Is Rome-Rust doing something special to optimize arbitrary AST-based plugins written in JS? I hadn’t heard that but I’d be interested if it is.
I think by the time we even care about the performance of a plugin being "golang" fast, we will have rome built in rust.
Rome will be the full kit and caboodle at native speeds (bundler, tree shaking compiler, linter, type checker, etc...), whereas esbuild will be the rome-lite for when you just want to bundle some code and have it done.