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Thoughts about new fancy JavaScript tools in Rust? (lemy.lol)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've heard many of them. For example: rolldown, rspack, swc, oxc, esbuild, parcel, vite etc.

I can currently use JS projects without these tools. What extra do they add? Why should I use them instead of simply using tsc?

Though I must admit I like vite simplicity in front-end.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Most of what you listed are bundlers, and they exist because they go faster. You probably won't gain much in a small project, but when tsc starts taking 5 to 10 minutes to build - that's a good time to shop around.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

5 minutes? Jesus I wouldn't wait that long when there's a simple way to make your build 10x faster.