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How is it possible to be so fast?

• lioeters 5y ago
  Answered in the FAQ: Why is esbuild fast? https://esbuild.github.io/faq/#why-is-esbuild-fast https://esbuild.github.io/faq/#why-is-esbuild-fast - It's written in Go and compiles to native code - Parallelism is used heavily - Written from scratch with performance as a goal - Efficient use of memory
• louissm_it 5y ago
  1. It does a few things and does them really well (not taking on the complexity of ie Webpack) 2. It’s written in Go
• leeman2016 5y ago
  It also doesn't include type checking for typescript. It just transpiles sources to javascript
  • Ginden 5y ago
    > It also doesn't include type checking for typescript. If you use `@aws/sdk`, you are going to have bad time with Typescript. Resolving its types can easily take >50% of compilation time for small projects.