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 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.