I've been using NAPI-RS to bridge from Electron <-> Rust and it's been nice - https://napi.rs/ I believe SWC uses it behind the scenes.

They just put out an alpha release that makes it way more ergonomic to write Rust functions that interop with JS, too. There's a small example of it in the README: https://github.com/napi-rs/napi-rs#taste

NAPI isn't as well-known in the JS-to-Rust bindings world (Neon is the more well-known library, https://neon-bindings.com/) but it seems to be gaining steam.

Ah yes, how could I forget! NAPI-RS is very, very slick.

Volta is also written in Rust. I've only used it for managing Node and npm versions, but it can do more than that and describes itself as a "tool manager" rather than a node version manager.

https://docs.volta.sh/guide/

I was interested to see that bun (https://bun.sh) is being created in Zig. "bun is like postcss, babel, node & webpack in one 100x faster tool for building modern web frontends."

Another one: Electron alternative Tauri written in Rust – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26194990

fnm was a game changer for me, it is significantly quicker than nvm.

It was mentioned in the article but swc as an alternative typescript compiler has really sped up builds.

Now, it just needs type checking to replace tsc :fingers-crossed: