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Re:Rolldown: Rollup compatible bundler written in Rust by RamblingCTO on Friday March 08, 2024 @08:59AM (#39641098)
Wrong question. Why rust?
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Re:Rolldown: Rollup compatible bundler written in Rust by seanhunter on Friday March 08, 2024 @09:04AM (#39641132)
Because the people who actually want to do the work want to do it in rust.
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Re:Rolldown: Rollup compatible bundler written in Rust by todotask on Friday March 08, 2024 @09:39AM (#39641435)
With both Vite and TailwindCSS v4 written in Tailwind, web development is going to be faster for Astro and other frameworks.
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Re:Rolldown: Rollup compatible bundler written in Rust by no_wizard on Friday March 08, 2024 @09:57AM (#39641587)
>TailwindCSS v4 written in Tailwind

Didn't realize it was a self bootstrapping language now. Thats awesome

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Re:Rolldown: Rollup compatible bundler written in Rust by RamblingCTO on Saturday March 09, 2024 @05:18AM (#39650719)
That's a fair answer. Although I still don't agree with rust being particularly fitting for that problem.
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Re:Rolldown: Rollup compatible bundler written in Rust by math_dandy on Friday March 08, 2024 @11:18AM (#39642540)
Because it’s the only sufficiently mainstream language in the ML family.
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Re:Rolldown: Rollup compatible bundler written in Rust by RamblingCTO on Saturday March 09, 2024 @05:17AM (#39650713)
That's not a reason to use rust in that instance.
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