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Thoughts about new fancy JavaScript tools in Rust? (lemy.lol)
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I've heard many of them. For example: rolldown, rspack, swc, oxc, esbuild, parcel, vite etc.

I can currently use JS projects without these tools. What extra do they add? Why should I use them instead of simply using tsc?

Though I must admit I like vite simplicity in front-end.

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[โ€“] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Most of what you listed are bundlers, and they exist because they go faster. You probably won't gain much in a small project, but when tsc starts taking 5 to 10 minutes to build - that's a good time to shop around.

[โ€“] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

5 minutes? Jesus I wouldn't wait that long when there's a simple way to make your build 10x faster.