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Re:Vercel announces Turbopack, the successor to Webpack by thatswrong0 on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @02:44PM (#33334585)
This looks great, but I feel like calling this a successor to Webpack in its current state is disingenuous, considering the roadmap literally says: “Currently, migrating to Turbopack from Webpack is not yet possible.”

At least the marketing website is snazzy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re:Vercel announces Turbopack, the successor to Webpack by ohbtvz on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @03:00PM (#33334759)
It's led by the creator of webpack, and they are working on an incremental migration path. What more would you expect? If you want to keep the exact same API, stay with webpack...
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Re:Vercel announces Turbopack, the successor to Webpack by RussianCow on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @03:01PM (#33334776)
Indeed. Calling it a "spiritual" successor would have been more honest.
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Re:Vercel announces Turbopack, the successor to Webpack by adammarples on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @03:07PM (#33334839)
Heir apparent maybe?
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Re:Vercel announces Turbopack, the successor to Webpack by josefdlange on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @02:52PM (#33334661)
Not to mention explicit language about _not planning to support the Webpack API 1:1_...
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