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Rolldown-Vite: a Rust-Rewrite of Rollup
- pjmlp 1y agoAnother day, another RIIR on the JavaScript ecosystem. Maybe those of us using JavaScript only on the frontend had something going on for it, just saying.
- alain_gilbert 1y agoI think you guys just made a bunch of low hanging fruits that are dead easy to make way better without too much effort. Which also provide the opportunity to maybe have a fairly successful project for the author of the rewrite project.
- pjmlp 1y agoI fail to see how nodejs is better than JVM/CLR, and I am around for quite a few decades, other than selling bootcamps, but that is just me.
- alain_gilbert 1y agoI think I misread your original comment. We both seems to agree on the same things.
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- crabmusket 1y agoI can't really understand what you are trying to say but it sounds vaguely negative? I put it to you, why shouldn't Vite decide that Rust is the "right tool for the job" in their case?
- pjmlp 1y agoIn general, if everyone is rewriting their JavaScript code into Rust, maybe they should ask themselves why they are using JavaScript at all outside the browser. By way, this used to be how Javascript related tools for browser deployments were written before nodejs became a thing.
- hombre_fatal 1y agoBecause they don’t want to write Rust, especially not for applications, but they don’t mind if someone wants to implement their tools in Rust. Did this need to be said? The language you might use to speed up a build tool has little to do with the language I might want to use to build most software I write, especially the application layer.
- pjmlp 1y agoWebAssembly enters the room.
- hombre_fatal 1y agoAnd then it immediately leaves the room because it's a horrible way to write application logic on the server.
- imtringued 1y agoThey are rewriting the build tools, because the NPM ecosystem produces a bloated mess of multi megabyte bundles out of the box and you have to re-bundle from scratch during development every time you change even a single file.
- pjmlp 1y agoA side effect of the whole using JavaScript on the server. Next step, rewrite npm.
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- rk06 1y agoThis is quite an achievement because I thought vite was already fast enough.