"There were number rounding issues in the original numbers for the 1k component case - Turbopack's 15ms was rounded down to 0.01s while Vite's 87ms was rounded up to 0.09s. This further got marketed as a 10x advantage when the original numbers were close to 6x."
That is more than exaggeration, it's either incompetence or deceitful. They also did not even release a benchmark at first, and if you read Evan's writeup it could be argued the benchmark is not a fair comparison.
They are pushing the idea that they are doing revolutionary stuff when in actual fact they are copying existing projects that have been around for years:
From the submission:
"There were number rounding issues in the original numbers for the 1k component case - Turbopack's 15ms was rounded down to 0.01s while Vite's 87ms was rounded up to 0.09s. This further got marketed as a 10x advantage when the original numbers were close to 6x."
That is more than exaggeration, it's either incompetence or deceitful. They also did not even release a benchmark at first, and if you read Evan's writeup it could be argued the benchmark is not a fair comparison.
They made a lot of noise about Next.js 13 when a lot of the new features are turbobroken. Ex: https://www.reddit.com/r/nextjs/comments/yj4r3q/migration_fr...
They are claiming turbopack is a webpack successor purely based off of having hired the creator of webpack: https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/1584996270242148352.
They are pushing the idea that they are doing revolutionary stuff when in actual fact they are copying existing projects that have been around for years:
- turbopack using the same architecture as Parcel: https://twitter.com/devongovett/status/1585035737971724288
- "literally copy pasted Lage’s design and docs and branded it as Turborepo" https://twitter.com/jeffbcross/status/1583251710654283776
I strongly dislike the way they have gone about marketing their new tech.
Things like this also feel off: https://twitter.com/ascorbic/status/1585004156615479296