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robin21 on Jan 16, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: State of JavaScript 2020

Yeh Babel and webpack blow out compile times to epic proportions.

Any app that grows to a certain size will slow down to a crawl on incremental builds.

esperent on Jan 16, 2021 | [–]

Try esbuild. I thought the following benchmarks must be fake until I tried it myself.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/evanw/esbuild/master/image...

robin21 on Jan 19, 2021 | | [–]

I really can’t believe that.

But I will try!

astrod on Jan 16, 2021 | [–]

There has been some interesting tooling being written in Rust, swc[1] compiles very fast. Not quite production ready but getting there.

[1]https://swc.rs/

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