It really depends on who (which team) is doing it. I would almost surely give up before understanding what esbuild does and how, and what needs to be modified.

It really depends on who (which team) is doing it. I would almost surely give up before understanding what esbuild does and how, and what needs to be modified. (Because Go basically gives me the creeps.) So someone with a lot of Rust experience probably simply opts for the rewrite. That said, it seems folks on the Vite team decided to give this a try because of oxc_parser (a JS parser written in Rust), so probably it's not because of Rust-Go sentimentalism. // Though ... there's also otto[1] (a JS parser in Go) ... so who knows! :)) // And of course even more context here[2] and here[3] (this one is from Evan You) // [1] https://github.com/robertkrimen/otto https://github.com/robertkrimen/otto [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39641634 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39641634 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39648399 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39648399