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Re:Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust by jauntywundrkind on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @02:02AM (#40853921)
Rspack (ByteDance) just shipped 1.0. There's Farm too. This is from Ant Group. Major influx of build tools all built in Rust, made in China.

Turbopack is supposed to be coming, as a total rebuild of bundling. Rolldown seems solid, as a Rust roll-up redo.

Re:Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust by spoiler on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @03:50AM (#40854437)
Rsbuild has been really nice to use. I migrated a bunch of webpack projects to Rsbuild and it reduced config, and improved DX.

One of my favourite features is probably that it understands a tsconfig file: https://rsbuild.dev/config/source/tsconfig-path

Re:Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust by hardwaresofton on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @02:39AM (#40854083)
Clearly Rust is catching on as a more approachable, safe and performant C/C++.

I personally also think about it as a more-likely-to-make-it-to-production Haskell, with how robust the type system, tooling, and other things are (not to rag on Haskell -- it's a fantastic language and there's lots of overlap in the communities).

Re:Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust by aaronlinzx on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @02:18AM (#40853998)
they need to create new tracks for promotions and KPI, recreating a wheel in rust will achieve just that. It's referred to as technology investment, but it's really speculation.
Re:Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust by pshu on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @11:39AM (#40857705)
it's maybe a Nash Equilibrium to investing in Rust tools in big tech productivity races.
Re:Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust by alvincodes on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @07:12AM (#40855463)
I hadn't heard of any of these, apart from rolldown, thanks!

Hopefully docusaurus gets on that train soon

Re:Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust by csomar on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @12:37AM (#40862741)
I wonder if this is part of the Chinese de-risking/de-coupling. Major Chinese tech companies seems to be spawning their own open source developer tools.