[devongovett]

Note that this benchmark is dominated by Terser for minification. All tools aside from ESBuild use it.

[kabber]

Why not minify with esbuild instead by default?

[devongovett]

esbuild tends to produce larger bundles due to https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/639. Looks like there was recent activity though, so we need to re-test. Anyway, there's a plugin available for now: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@parcel/optimizer-esbuild. We're also excited about the SWC minifier project, which is basically a port of Terser to Rust.

[kabber]

This link https://github.com/privatenumber/minification-benchmarks shows swc is still a work in progress.