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I 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 fo
by crabmusket 1y ago
I 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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