[rk06]

From their intro [0]: We created Rspack to solve various performance problems we encountered while maintaining building tools at ByteDance. There were no tools in the market that could solve these problems well. We have a large number of monolithic applications within the company, all of which have very complex webpack configurations.

This makes rspack looks like a competitor to Turbopack which is marketed as webpack's successor.

[0] https://www.rspack.dev/guide/introduction.html

[likeabbas]

ByteDance seems to be putting out a lot of open source Rust libraries (e.g. Monoio). How widely used is Rust within the company?

[rektide]

Monoio:

> Rust async runtime based on io-uring.

Awhhh heck yeah!

It's been a bit disheartening that neither Node.js/libuv[1] nor Deno[2] have adopted io_uring. Nice to see some signs of adoption. Bun too.

Side note, I was a bit confused about you mentioning ByteDance, but if I go to the web-infra-dev[3] github page, the description is We are from ByteDance, our goal is to build an open technical ecosystem to promote the development of frontend technology, so now it make sense. Just sharing in case anyone else is confused.

[1] https://github.com/libuv/libuv/issues/1947

[2] https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/16232

[3] https://github.com/web-infra-dev