> EDIT: I stand corrected in that esbuild is not written in Javascript, but I think that's a disadvantage to it's success if anything and would point out webpac

> EDIT: I stand corrected in that esbuild is not written in Javascript, but I think that's a disadvantage to it's success if anything and would point out webpack is more popular. Webpack exists since 2012, of course it's more popular. For a long time there were no other alternatives, so people had to deal with its madness.