> It's possible that the Parcel 2 version they used is not the released one, so maybe it improved. I'd guess so because of timing and because the Parcel 2 beta

> It's possible that the Parcel 2 version they used is not the released one, so maybe it improved. I'd guess so because of timing and because the Parcel 2 beta 3 announcement [1] says "10x faster JavaScript compiler written in Rust [...] on top of the SWC compiler". Likely the esbuild folks benchmarked against beta 2 or earlier. [1] https://parceljs.org/blog/beta3/ https://parceljs.org/blog/beta3/