Speedy Web Compiler – A Rust port of Babel and Closure Compiler
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HN comment orderThis is really cool. I understand why all the front end tooling is written in JS but it really is a pain to deal with in my experience, especially when it comes to building and deploying. Since they're essentially just scripts you have to also install the right versions of node and npm and use npm to install the dependencies (and watch out for native extensions!). It's fairly tedious to get it all right, whenever I try it, since I'm…
If you're curious about the difference between this and esbuild, TypeScript, and Babel, I wrote up a bit of background and did some independent benchmarks of TypeScript/React app build times [0]. SWC does well! [0] https://datastation.multiprocess.io/blog/2021-11-13-benchmar...
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 476
- Total comments
- 178
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-11-10 | Swc-project/swc: Babel port in Rust | Immortalin | 4 | 0 |
| 2018-11-21 | Speedy: a Rust port of babel and closure-compiler | eatonphil | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-12-23 | Speedy Web Compiler – A Rust port of Babel and Closure CompilerFirst breakout · Best thread | kn8 | 382 | 125 |
| 2021-06-09 | Swc-project/swc: super-fast JavaScript compiler written in rust | swyx | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-12-20 | Speedy Web Compiler – a fast TypeScript/JavaScript compilerLatest 20+ point return | andrewstuart | 85 | 53 |