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> 3. The most impressive part about esbuild development is not just that it's one guy writing it: it is the level of support and documentation he manages to pro

> 3. The most impressive part about esbuild development is not just that it's one guy writing it: it is the level of support and documentation he manages to provide alongside. And the one guy writing it is Evan Wallace, co-founder and CTO of Figma. I don't know how he has the time!

kyawzazaw 5y ago
Massively impressive!
sesm 5y ago
I guess build times were a real issue for Figma and it started as an internal project.
- _fat_santa 5y ago
  This seems like a pet project. Reason I say that is if it was built for work, it would likely be from figma. Instead this project is from Evan himself.
  - capableweb 5y ago
    I'm not so sure about that as you. Not all companies are like Google and "steal" the credit of work done by employees, even if done on work time but unrelated to the core business. Plenty of companies let employees work on open source and still remain the owners of the software produced.
chipsambos 5y ago
Ironically, the Figma tagline is "Nothing great is made alone"
btown 5y ago
Figma's tech is mindblowing. Their entire engine is custom-built in C++ : https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-tool-on-the-web/ https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-to... > Instead of attempting to get one of [HTML/SVG/JS Canvas] to work, we implemented everything from scratch using WebGL. Our renderer is a highly-optimized tile-based engine with support for masking, blurring, dithered gradients, blend modes, nested layer opacity, and more. All rendering is done on the GPU and is fully anti-aliased. Internally our code looks a lot like a browser inside a browser; we have our own DOM, our own compositor, our own text layout engine, and we’re thinking about adding a render tree just like the one browsers use to render HTML. To most people, esbuild would be a full-time job. Based on the above, it seems that to Evan it's a fraction of the work he did in Figma's early days all at once!
- brailsafe 5y ago
  He seems to like writing code
Cyph0n 5y ago
What in the world? And some say 10x engineers don’t exist…

kyawzazaw 5y ago

Massively impressive!

sesm 5y ago

I guess build times were a real issue for Figma and it started as an internal project.

_fat_santa 5y ago
This seems like a pet project. Reason I say that is if it was built for work, it would likely be from figma. Instead this project is from Evan himself.
- capableweb 5y ago
  I'm not so sure about that as you. Not all companies are like Google and "steal" the credit of work done by employees, even if done on work time but unrelated to the core business. Plenty of companies let employees work on open source and still remain the owners of the software produced.

chipsambos 5y ago

Ironically, the Figma tagline is "Nothing great is made alone"

btown 5y ago

Figma's tech is mindblowing. Their entire engine is custom-built in C++ : https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-tool-on-the-web/ https://www.figma.com/blog/building-a-professional-design-to... > Instead of attempting to get one of [HTML/SVG/JS Canvas] to work, we implemented everything from scratch using WebGL. Our renderer is a highly-optimized tile-based engine with support for masking, blurring, dithered gradients, blend modes, nested layer opacity, and more. All rendering is done on the GPU and is fully anti-aliased. Internally our code looks a lot like a browser inside a browser; we have our own DOM, our own compositor, our own text layout engine, and we’re thinking about adding a render tree just like the one browsers use to render HTML. To most people, esbuild would be a full-time job. Based on the above, it seems that to Evan it's a fraction of the work he did in Figma's early days all at once!

brailsafe 5y ago
He seems to like writing code

Cyph0n 5y ago

What in the world? And some say 10x engineers don’t exist…